Doveadm auth fails

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> kwright at grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ ls -la /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan  4 19:09 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> 
> I see /var/run/dovecot/auth-client only has read and write permissions
> for the owner and nothing for anyone else.  Is this part of my problem?


That is same for me
   [root at host /]# ll /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
   srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan  4 15:31 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client