Ben Halicki wrote:

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to configure pam_mkhomedir and dovecot, so that users home directories are automatically created?

As far as I can tell, the login process runs as a non-root user, which results in a permission denied error while trying to create the users home directory. I'm not sure if this error is specific to dovecot or pam though.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ben Halicki Information Technology Officer Macquarie Textiles Group Ltd Phone: 02 6043 0235 Fax: 02 60411 321 E-mail ben.halicki@macquarietextiles.com.au

Ben

I have a setup just as you describe. It is running on Fedora Core 2 (i386). I would suggest making sure that the parent directory has the correct permissions. My root home folders are group-writable, which is acceptable since the only services accessing them are limited to the mail server.

HTH

Regards

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