[Dovecot] Dsync Permissions Issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 09:04 -0700, Asai wrote:

> [root at triata ~]# dsync -v -u asai at globalchangemusic.org backup ssh 
> -p22222 vmail at xx.xxx.xx.xxx dsync -u asai at globalchangemusic.org
> vmail at xx.xxx.xx.xxx's password:
> dsync(vmail): Error: userdb lookup: 
> connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied 
> (euid=1001(vmail) egid=1001(vmail) missing +r perm: 
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner)
..
> service auth {
>    unix_listener auth-userdb {
>      group = vmail
>      mode = 0666
>      user = vmail
>    }
>    user = root
> }

So clearly you've given more than necessary permissions in here. 0600
with user=vmail should be enough. But the permission problem isn't on
the server where you ran this "doveconf -n". The problem is on your
remote server's Dovecot config.

BTW:

>    unix_listener auth-master {
>      group = vmail
>      mode = 0660
>      user = vmail
>    }

There's no reason to change this from defaults.