It looks like dovecot is mistakenly picking up "/bin/false" as a directory (rather than a shell) in the password file.
What OS and version of dovecot are you using?
You could prove my theory by changing /bin/false to something else in the password file as a test.
Chris
Einar Flesaker wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling with getting dovecot up and running the last hour, but I seem to be stuck.
When logging in (which I can do successfully) my connection is dropped, and the following is outputted to my dovecot log:
dovecot: Apr 26 09:56:52 Fatal: chdir(/bin/false) failed with uid 513: Not a directory dovecot: Apr 26 09:56:52 Error: child 27345 (imap) returned error 89
.. But I'm certain the relevant directories exist. Relevant configuration details are as follows:
[dovecot.conf] valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/vmail default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/$d/%n/
[passwd sample] einar@domain.com::513:513:/var/spool/vmail/domain.com/:/bin/false::
[directory listing] [root@server einar]# pwd /var/spool/vmail/domain.com/einar [root@server einar]# ls -l totalt 12 drwx------ 2 virtmail virtmail 4096 apr 26 07:27 cur drwx------ 2 virtmail virtmail 4096 apr 26 08:48 new drwx------ 2 virtmail virtmail 4096 apr 26 08:48 tmp
I'd be very grateful for any assistance, any ideas of what might be wrong. Is there any easy way to see the relevant directory that /bin/false exits on?
-Einar-
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