It was probably caused by a bug already corrected. And not by dovecot.
commit 4fd554e3a097b22c5049fcdc423897477deff5ef Author: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Date: Mon Feb 20 09:17:57 2012 -0500
Fix wrong logic on capability checks for switching roles, broke policies
Thanks to Richard Kojedzinszky for reportingI'll test it with an updated kernel containing the fix.
Thx: Dw.
dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057
2012.Február 24.(P) 00:28 időpontban Timo Sirainen ezt írta:
On 24.2.2012, at 1.26, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 23.2.2012, at 21.56, Tóth Attila wrote:
In the mean time I've upgraded to 2.1. I've enabled debug logging and logged in.
I suspect that hardening features can be blamed for my problem. After booting a previous kernel the behavior was reverted.
OK.
BTW. It would be interesting to know if the attached patch causes it to fail with the hardening patches.