On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:45:42 -0000, John Connett
<john.connett@ntlworld.com> wrote:
I am attempting to configure a dovecot 2.0 + exim + fetchmail (demon)
combination on openSUSE 11.4, initially with the standard dovecot
package (2.0.9-3.4-x86_64) and now with the later server:mail build
service package (2.0.11-1.1-x86_64).I followed the instructions in
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL but despite the
changes in conf.d/10-master.conf the permissions on
/var/run/dovecot/auth-client remain unchanged:$ ls -l /var/run/dovecot/auth-client Srw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 13:11 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client $
This is probably the cause of authentication failures from exim. I
suspect it is something trivial but haven't yet been able to find the
answer.
Confirmed that the permissions are the source of the authentication
failures by manually changing to mode=0660, user=mail. These permissions
revert to mode=0600, user=root when dovecot is restarted.
The problem is either with the instructions on the wiki or within
dovecot. I will look at the source code to see if I can identify why the
permissions in conf.d/10-master.conf are not being applied. The "service
auth" part of conf.d/10-master.conf, stripped of comments, is:
service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 user = mail } unix_listener auth-userdb { } }