On Tuesday 26 May 2009 13:33:24 Max Ivanov wrote:
> > If strace says chdir() failed with EACCES, the only way it could be
> > something else is if kernel is buggy or there is some kernel security
> > module preventing the access.
>
> Or dovecot doesn't change uid to user one and still acts as dovec
> If strace says chdir() failed with EACCES, the only way it could be
> something else is if kernel is buggy or there is some kernel security
> module preventing the access.
Or dovecot doesn't change uid to user one and still acts as dovecot
user, but its unlikely to be true
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:24 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > I can't really give any more suggestions. It should either be a
> > directory permission problem somewhere or SELinux or something. You
> > could maybe temporarily try installing v1.2 and see what it logs as
> > the error. It sho
On Monday 25 May 2009 23:00:46 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> were you able to detect anything? I am still stuck with the problem.
> >
> > Well, strace says what Dovecot also says:
> >
> > 5598 chdir("/home/vmail/example.com/john") = -1 EACCES (Permission
> > denied)
>
> I can't really give any more
On May 25, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On May 25, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:51:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote:
exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p
"
then try to access pop3 when fa
On May 25, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:51:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote:
exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p "
then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log
(gzipped)
attached
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:51:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote:
> > exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p "
> > then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log
> > (gzipped)
>
> attached
were you able to detect anything? I am st
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:50:05 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I also did a chmod o+r on /home, /home/vmail, /home/vmail/
> > example.com and
> > /home/vmail/example.com/john
>
> chdir() wants +x, not +r.
that doesn't work either
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
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NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.i
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote:
> exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p "
> then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log
> (gzipped)
attached
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
access.log.gz
Description: G
On May 21, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
greenchilly:/home/lawgon# su vmail -c "echo OK"
OK
greenchilly:/home/lawgon# su vmail -c 'cd /home/vmail/example.com/
john &&
echo Dir:$(pwd)'
Dir:/home/vmail/example.com/john
I also did a chmod o+r on /home, /home/vmail, /home/vmail/
ex
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:15:12 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 18:49:25 Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> > Well, there are lots of "permission denied" problems lately.
> >
> > Are you really absolutely sure that user with uid 5000 may chdir into
> > /home/vmail/example.com/john ??
> >
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 18:49:25 Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> Well, there are lots of "permission denied" problems lately.
>
> Are you really absolutely sure that user with uid 5000 may chdir into
> /home/vmail/example.com/john ??
>
> I mean, make sure "su" may set uid to the user of UID 5000 (esp. the
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 16:58 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > Anyway that
> > chdir() syscall really failed with that error message. The reason for
> > that is less clear then.. v1.1+ would give a much nicer error message
> > here telling exactly what is wrong..
>
> I have installed version 1.1.
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On Wed, 20 May 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
Well, there are lots of "permission denied" problems lately.
Are you really absolutely sure that user with uid 5000 may chdir into
/home/vmail/example.com/john ??
I mean, make sure "su" may set uid to
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:58:22 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> no
>
> > Anyway that
> > chdir() syscall really failed with that error message. The reason for
> > that is less clear then.. v1.1+ would give a much nicer error message
> > here telling exactly what is wrong..
>
> I have installed version
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 01:20:37 you wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:35 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: chdir(/home/vmail/example.com/john)
> > failed with uid 5000: Permission denied
>
> ..
>
> > I have looked at the archives and see that the problem has
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:35 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: chdir(/home/vmail/example.com/john)
> failed with uid 5000: Permission denied
..
> I have looked at the archives and see that the problem has been reported
> before, but cannot find any solution. Do
hi,
I am running debian lenny standard install and dovecot also as a standard
install. I have a problem with POP3 access. The error message is:
May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: chdir(/home/vmail/example.com/john)
failed with uid 5000: Permission denied
May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: c
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