Re: [Dovecot] auth-worker ownership issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 23:58 -0500, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:

> Nov  8 23:36:53 myserver dovecot: auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) 
> in directory /var/run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=89(vpopmail) 
> egid=89(vchkpw) missing +r perm: auth-worker, euid is not dir owner)

It's not a very good idea to run auth process as vpopmail. The default
is "dovecot", which you should also run it as. So just remove:

service auth {
  user = vpopmail
}

[Dovecot] auth-worker ownership issue

[Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold]

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Greetings,

I installed 2.0.7 this evening and I'm getting these messages in 
/var/log/maillog :

Nov  8 23:36:53 myserver dovecot: auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) in 
directory /var/run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=89(vpopmail) 
egid=89(vchkpw) missing +r perm: auth-worker, euid is not dir owner)
Nov  8 23:36:53 myserver dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup 
failed, throttling


If I change the ownership of /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker to vpopmail, dovecot 
starts working properly.  However, restarting the service results in this file 
being re-owned by dovecot.

Am I missing a config option somewhere?  I'm using dovecot with qmail and 
vpopmail 5.4.32.

Thanks,

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