ssl_cert: Can't open file permission denied

[Laura Smith]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 11:40 AM, Gerald Galster via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:

> > Am 10.04.2019 um 11:59 schrieb Laura Smith via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> >
> > On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 10:52 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > This is openSUSE, not Centos, I don't think it even comes with selinux.
>
> Maybe apparmor?
>
> https://git.ispconfig.org/ispconfig/ispconfig3/issues/5071
>
>  > OpenSuSE and apparmor expect dovecot certs to be in /etc/ssl/private
>  > ISPConfig setup script expects SSL certs to be in /etc/postfix but apparmor prevents dovecot from reading them in that directory
>
> Otherwise you could login as dovecot user (temporarily change the shell to bash if needed; usermod -s /bin/bash) and see if you can access the certificate.
> Check all directory/file permissions, including acls (man getfacl), along the path.
>
> Best regards
> Gerald

@Gerald   Spot on with apparmor !