[Dovecot] problem with dovecot replication over tcp

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16.9.2013, at 13.45, nik600 <nik600 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sep 16 12:42:18 auth: Error: passdb(root,xx): Auth client doesn't have
> permissions to do a PASS lookup: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb mode=0666,
> but not owned by UID 1002(vmail)
..
> #chown vmail /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> 
> But the error is the same.

Here's one possibility:

service auth {
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    user = vmail
    mode = 0600
  }
}

Another possibility is to use mode=0777 and it gives everyone permissions.