Quota - frustrated trying to configure ...

[Sami Ketola]

> On 25 Sep 2017, at 21.19, Garry Glendown <garry at glendown.de> wrote:
> 
> doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=479(dovecot) egid=478(dovecot) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned
> by 0:0 mode=0700)
> doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied
> 
> It looks like dovecot doesn't actually attempt to look at the central
> maildir, but instead seems to attempt to enter the current user's
> homedir (which, in this case, is root).



what was the command line you used to test this? As this looks a lot like you
just tried to check root users quota.

try: doveadm quota get -u <uid>

and try if ‘doveadm user <uid>’ returns any quota rules.

Sami