Doveadm error since 2.3.11.3 when run as unprivileged user

Dan Christensen jdc at uwo.ca
Sat Aug 15 16:05:10 EEST 2020


On Aug 13, 2020, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeff.sipek at open-xchange.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 21:16:42 +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote:
>> Citeren Timo Sirainen <timo at sirainen.com>:
>> > !include_try ssl-keys.conf
>> 
>> That will only work to include an optional configuration file and  
>> suppress errors if it doesn't exist. I put
>> 
>> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/de-korte.org.key
>> 
>> in a separate configuration file and it failed in a similar fashion,  
>> just with another filename.
>
> I think the idea was that the file with the ssl_key line was only
> root-readable.  That way, non-privilged users will fail to include the file.

This worked for me.  As mentioned, I had to make the new .conf file
readable only by root.

Dan



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