Working on setting up dovecot and having trouble logging in. I get an error in logs (below) indicating Operation not Permitted. auth_debug doesn't help.
Ideas?
# dovecot --version 1.1.7
# dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 listen: *,[::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd
Log (server name is adapter, I know it's an odd name...): Jul 9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=11185 Jul 9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted Jul 9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=11186 Jul 9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=11187 Jul 9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted Jul 9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted
-- Thomas Suckow