[Dovecot] Connection refused userdb lookup ..dovecot/auth-userdb

[Simon]

On Thursday, March 13, 2014, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>
wrote:

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> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Simon wrote:
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>  Ive taken a look at this and cant quite figure out what is going on here.
>> I have tested all the SQL permissions, and also changed the unix_listener
>> auth-userdb mode to 0666 (as instructed elsewhere to try and solve this
>> issue), but cannot seem to work out what the issue is.
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> what happens if you connect to that socket manually, e.g.:
>
> # sudo -u <lda-user> socat - UNIX:/usr/local/dovecot/var/
> run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> VERSION 1       1
> SPID    1746
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> Maybe first try as root, then with the partucular users.
>

Thanks for the reply! I tried this as root and got the following:

[root at vmail1 ~]# socat - UNIX:/usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
2014/03/16 20:57:05 socat[24404] E connect(3, AF=1
"/usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb", 48): Connection refused

Seems a bit wierd that I can't connect as root?

Simon