managesieve user

GMX Account sk71 at gmx.de
Sat Mar 28 19:58:31 EET 2020


Hi,


if i remember right there are several path changes in 90-sieve.conf. 

did you check this?





--- Original Nachricht ---
Betreff: Re: managesieve user
Von: "André Rodier" 
An: "dovecot" 
Datum: 28-03-2020 16:29





On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 15:14 +0000, André Rodier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am updating dovecot, from Debian Stretch to Buster, and I have an
> issue with the managesieve service:
> 
> > Mar 28 15:05:06 mail dovecot[2637]: managesieve-login: Error:
auth:
> > connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied
> > (euid=120() egid=128() missing
> > +x
> > perm: /, we're not in group 127, dir owned by 0:127 mode=0770)
> > Mar 28 15:05:06 mail dovecot[2637]: managesieve-login: Error:
auth:
> > connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied
> > (euid=120() egid=128() missing +x perm: /, we're
> > not in group 127, dir owned by 0:127 mode=0770)
> 
> The two folders I found with these permissions are
/run/dovecot/login
> and /run/dovecot/token-login.
> Both folders belongs to root:dovecot
> 
> If I change the permissions of the following folders, like this:
> 
> chmod 0775 /run/dovecot/login
> chmod 0775 /run/dovecot/token-login
> 
> Then, dovecot managesieve is working, but this is just a test, I
> suppose the service should run with a specific user?
> 
> Do you have any idea on what is wrong here?
> 
> If I restart dovecot, I have an error message that states the
> permissions are wrong, and they are set again to 0770
> 
> Thanks,
> André Rodier
> 
Hi again,

I can fix it by using this:

> service managesieve-login {
>   inet_listener sieve {
>     port = 4190
>   }
> 
>   # Run as an unprivileged user
>   group = dovecot
>   user = dovecot
> }
> 

Is it the right setting in term of security?

Thanks again,
André
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