[ILUG] dovecot permission denied problems.

[John Mc Donald]

Thanks David,

That fixed it. Haven't had time to get my head round SELinux yet so I
just turned it off and hey presto!

John.

david wrote:

> John Mc Donald wrote:
>
>> I am trying to setup dovecot on a FC4 machine. Access to the machine is
>> provided through pam. When I login to the machine my home directory is
>> mounted over nfs from a central file server. I have dovecot installed
>> and running but it can't seem to access my home directory. When I try
>> and access my mail I get the following three lines in /var/log/maillog:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Jul 25 12:46:04 escher imap-login: Login: ######
>>> [::ffff:###.###.###.###]
>>> Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: chdir(/home/######) failed with uid
>>> ####: Permission denied
>>> Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: child 13182 (imap) returned error 89
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The uid that is used is the one associated with my home directory. As
>> far as I understand it when you connect to dovecot the imap connection
>> setuid's to the uid of the authenticated user so there should be no
>> permission problems.
>>
>> To try and help in the debugging process I also setup a local user
>> "testimap" using
>>
>>  
>>
>>> /usr/sbin/useradd -d /tmp/testimap testimap
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I then try to use thunderbird to connect to it and I get the following
>> in /var/log/maillog
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap-login: Login: testimap
>>> [::ffff:###.###.###.###]
>>> Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): mbox: Can't create root IMAP
>>> folder /tmp/testimap/mail: Permission denied
>>> Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): MAIL environment missing and
>>> autodetection failed (home /tmp/testimap)
>>> Jul 25 12:54:54 escher dovecot: child 13360 (imap) returned error 89
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>>
>> TIA,
>> John.
>>
>>  
>>
> Is this another example of SELinux messing in FC4?
>
> This sounds similar to the problem Im having with SAMBA
>
> Any thoughts??
>
> D


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