Missing permissions

Andrei Petru Mura mapandrei at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 10:02:53 EEST 2020


I think I found here what I'm interested in:
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/system_users_used_by_dovecot/.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:52 AM Andrei Petru Mura <mapandrei at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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