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

Simon greminn at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 19:55:54 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Tom Hendrikx <tom at whyscream.net> wrote:

>> [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?
> >>
> > Hi All, Ive been googling the crap out of this but still cant seem to
> make
> > it work.. any assistance would be really appreciated thanks! :)
> >
>
> Please don't top-post...
>

Hi There, Sorry about that ;)


>
> Some ideas:
>
> 1) Show full output of 'doveconf -n'
>

http://pastebin.com/wsUt0eEF


> 2) How do permissions of the socket look like? Show full output of 'ls
> -al /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/'
>

http://pastebin.com/pCazAVUz


> 3) Do you use SElinux or some other access control system? Any output in
> syslog/kernel logging?


/etc/selinux/config was set to permissive, so i set to disabled. Apart from
the mail.log output in my pastbin above - there is no more logging that i
can find.

Thanks!

Simon


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