On November 29, 2009 8:40:13 PM +0100 Thomas Leuxner tlx@leuxner.net wrote:
Am 29.11.2009 um 20:31 schrieb Frank Cusack:
dovecot-1.2.8 creates /var/run/dovecot mode 750.
I run postfix+dovecot in a virtual user setup. Postfix calls deliver as user vmail group vmail.
Nov 29 12:53:04 imap.invalid dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] deliver(frank): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vmail) egid=500(vmail) missing +x perm: /var/run/dovecot)
So it can't access that directory as it states. It would create that structure upon start to my knowledge. Mine is
[20:38] root spectre:/# l -d /var/run/dovecot drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-25 13:20 /var/run/dovecot
What is yours?
Mine is, as I noted in the very first line of my email, mode 750. I normally would have removed all of the quoted lines above but I left it so you can see back to the first line.
You are probably missing the information that this is new in dovecot-1.2.8. Prior to that, dovecot created /var/run/dovecot mode 777, which was a security hole.
I wasn't looking for a fix, I was reporting a problem. It only affects systems where /var/run is on tmpfs and so dovecot has to create /var/run/dovecot the first time it runs after a reboot.
Thanks for the look, though.
-frank