On June 23, 2016 at 8:01 AM Michael Fox news@mefox.org wrote:
I'm new to Dovecot and I'm having trouble getting basic, flat file userdb lookups to work. This must have been asked before, but if so, I can't find it.
I'm following the basic setup here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/SimpleVirtualInstall with a few minor differences. Output of doveconf -n is below, as well as relevant entries from postfix main.cf and master.cf.
When I send a message to a virtual user that will be handled by Dovecot, Postfix hands it off to Dovecot LDA. But I get the following error in the log:
Jun 22 20:53:33 xxxxx dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)
/var/run/dovecot/ is indeed owned by root:root with 0755 permissions.
The actual passwd file used for userdb/passdb is currently owned by root:vmail with 0640 permissions.
Section virtual users, with lookup has the answer.
Aki Tuomi