[Dovecot] Problem after migration dovecot 1.2 -> dovecot 2.0

[Timo Sirainen]

On 12.1.2011, at 13.34, Javier de Miguel Rodrí guez wrote:

> /Jan 12 12:14:44 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Error: auth: connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied (euid=107(<unknown>) egid=110(<unknown>) missing +x perm: /, euid is not dir owner)/

Hmm.

> ls -lhR /var/run/dovecot
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root 4,0K ene 12 09:05 empty
> drwxr-x--- 2 root    root 4,0K ene 12 11:40 login

These two directories should have "dovenull" as group.. It should have automatically figured this out by looking up dovenull's group. I could send some debug patches to figure out what the problem is.. But you should be able to work around it by setting:

service imap-login {
  group = dovenull
}