Am 05.01.2021 um 21:18 schrieb Thomas Strike:
While working with adding a website to apache on my server something caused a blanket resetting of all file permissions on the server to apache:apache. I have most of the server running again but my mail services is another story. I have configured vmail on a Postfix with Dovecot and mariadb install. What I need is help with reestablishing the correct file and folder permissions that dovecot uses. The following is my configuration;
# OS: Linux 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) xfs
Keep your system updated! Current kernel is
4.18.0-240.1.1.el8_3.x86_64
and CentOS 8.3.2011 is the current OS minor release.
# Dovecot version# 2.2.36 (1f10bfa63)
Why is that this ancient version of dovecot? CentOS 8 ships https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-appstream-x86_64/dovecot-2.3.8-4.el8.x86_64... on the x86_64 platform.
# Hostname: sleepyvalley auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = vmail mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = scheme=CRAM-MD5 username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } postmaster_address = postmaster@sleepyvalley.net service auth-worker { user = vmail } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl_cert =
I really need help with this, thanks.
For dovecot and other packages installed through install / dnf use
rpm --setperms <packagename> rpm --setugids <packagename>
For /var/vmail you have specified vmail:vmail. Same for /home/vmail.
Alexander