[Dovecot] Permission problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.3.2012, at 4.53, David Renstrom wrote:

> As you see I've got a vmail user who belongs to the mail group. Almost all
> directories under /var/run/dovecot belong to user root and group root. They
> all have the permissions rw--------.

That's how they should be mostly.

> Below is some output from the log file dovecot.log:
> 
> Mar 01 03:31:17 auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) in directory
> /run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=101(vmail) egid=12(mail)
> missing +r perm: /run/dovecot/auth-worker, dir owned by 0:97 mode=0755)

Why is your auth process running as vmail? Show your dovecot -n output