[Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 20 May 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

Well, there are lots of "permission denied" problems lately.

Are you really absolutely sure that user with uid 5000 may chdir into 
/home/vmail/example.com/john ??

I mean, make sure "su" may set uid to the user of UID 5000 (esp. the shell 
is a real shell, so (as root) # su user -c "echo OK"
displays "OK", then do as root #

su user -c 'cd /home/vmail/example.com/john && echo Dir:$(pwd)'

(and revert what you've did for testing on success)

Do run some protection stuff, e.g. SELinux or AppArmor or the like? 
Dovecot setuid()'s to uid 5000, then chdir()s there. Such stuff may 
prohibit this.

Or, do you have ACLs enabled in the filesystem? Or do you use a remote 
filesystem, which permissions probably lie to the client.

Are all files in /home/vmail/example.com/john owned by uid 5000 and r/w? 
No dead sym links, etc.pp?

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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