Missing permissions

[Andrei Petru Mura]

Hi Aki,

Thanks. I was especially interested in documentation related to dovecot and
it's users permissions, the way in which dovecot uses users. Till now I
found only spread information on different articles from dovecot's website.

Thanks,
Mura Andrei

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:49 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#ReadWritePaths=
>
> although we probably need to add some words into doc.dovecot.org under
> known issues.
>
> Aki
>
> > On 11/04/2020 09:24 Andrei Petru Mura <mapandrei at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Aki,
> >
> > Any documentation on this topic?
> >
> > Mura Andrei
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:27 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>
> wrote:
> > > This is probably caused by systemd (or selinux or both).
> > >
> > >  With systemd, you need to add
> > >
> > >  ReadWritePaths=/home/mail
> > >
> > >  to the systemd unit.
> > >
> > >  Then you can check /var/log/audit/audit.log for any selinux specific
> problems. If you are using Centos/Redhat.
> > >
> > >  Aki
> > >
> > >  > On 06/04/2020 17:01 Andrei Petru Mura <mapandrei at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >  > Hi,
> > >  >
> > >  > Dovecot version 2.2.36
> > >  > In log files I get this error:
> > >  > dovecot: imap(test): Namespace '':
> mkdir(/home/mail/domain/test/Maildir) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=1005(vmail) egid=1005(vmail) missing +w perm: /home/mail/domain, UNIX
> perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))
> > >  >
> > >  > My authentication configuration is this:
> > >  > passdb {
> > >  > driver = passwd-file
> > >  > args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users
> > >  > }
> > >  >
> > >  > userdb {
> > >  > driver = static
> > >  > args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/mail/domain/%n
> username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users
> > >  >
> > >  > }
> > >  >
> > >  > /home/mail/domain/test directory is owned by vmail user.
> > >  > How to fix this?
> > >  >
> > >  > Mura Andrei
> > >
>
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