2.2.18 initial setup permissions problem

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Forrest wrote:
> On 10/26/15 5:30 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Forrest wrote:
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>>> I'm using Dovecot 2.2.18, compiled from source, on CentOS 6.
>>> 
>>> I'm running into a permissions problem with my first rollout of Dovecot 
>>> which has to do with directory permissions:
>>> 
>>> Oct 23 14:34:51 mail dovecot: imap(username): Error: 
>>> stat(/home/username/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied 
>>> (euid=596(<unknown>) egid=97(dovecot) missing +x perm:
>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> /home/username/Maildir, dir owned by 500:500 mode=0700)
>>                                       ^^^^^^^
>> 
>> you have configured your user or Dovecot to use uid 596, but the user's 
>> Maildir is owned by uid 500 .
>> 
>>> I can't seem to figure this one out.  Can someone point me in the right 
>>> direction.
>> 
>
> Interesting, in our setup at work, the Maildir is owned by the user, not 
> dovecot.  So why does that work and the above does not?   Is it a setting?

At work your userdb is configured to return system users:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SystemUsers by returning uid/gid per user, see 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase

> I can grep through the configs -- just not sure what to look for here.  I 
> didn't see anything in the dovecot.conf, though.

At home you seem to have a static global mail_uid/_gid or static userdb or 
do not return no uid/gid per user.

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Steffen Kaiser
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