On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 19:42 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Oct 21 16:33:18 lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/opt/dovecot2/var/run/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=26(mailnull) egid=26(mailnull) missing +r perm: /opt/dovecot2/var/run/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner)
It's not complaining about base_dir's permissions, but auth-userdb socket's permissions. See:
service auth { # auth_socket_path points to this userdb socket by default. It's typically # used by dovecot-lda, doveadm, possibly imap process, etc. Its default # permissions make it readable only by root, but you may need to relax these # permissions. Users that have access to this socket are able to get a list # of all usernames and get results of everyone's userdb lookups. unix_listener auth-userdb { #mode = 0600 #user = #group = }
Maybe you want to set "user = vmail" or something.