ssl_cert: Can't open file permission denied

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Apr 10 12:52:20 EEST 2019


On 10.4.2019 12.36, Laura Smith via dovecot wrote:
> Dovecot 2.3.3 (dcead646b)
> openSUSE Leap 15.0
>
> I am getting a weird error message:
>
> Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/local.conf line 16: ssl_cert: Can't open file /etc/foobar/ssl/certbot.pem: Permission denied
>
> I have tried the following:
> - chmod -R 655 /etc/foobar/ssl (/etc/foobar is 755)
> - create "ssl_users" group add dovecot to it chown -R dovecot:ssl_users /etc/foobar/ssl
>
>
> How can I fix this ? There's no obvious solution ?
>
>
>
Are you by chance using selinux? If you are, you might need to relabel
the files.

Aki



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