Unprivileged users can't use doveadm anymore in 2.3.16

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Fri Sep 17 08:28:26 EEST 2021


> On 16/09/2021 20:08 Markus Schönhaber <dovecot at list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> 16.09.21, 18:50 +0200, dovecot at ptld.com:
> 
> > What happened in 2.3.16 to doveadm? You can no longer use the command as
> > an unprivileged user like you could in 2.3.8
> > 
> > Roundcube uses "doveadm pw" to change users passwords and runs as user
> > apache. This works in 2.3.8 but in 2.3.16 you get an error.
> > doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > line 19: ssl_key: Can't open file
> > /etc/letsencrypt/live/example_cert/privkey.pem: Permission denied
> 
> https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2020-August/119646.html
> 
> -- 
> Regards
>    mks

This is fixed with

https://github.com/dovecot/core/compare/79a210c1f7e94a1863f17db0b9f14b6d3c89e15f%5E..368a96783e8a64a62d07da4adcf2f3b1b525380b.patch

and will be in 2.3.17

Aki


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