Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:30 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote:
>
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there an automatic solution to this?
>>>>
>>>> Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location:
>>>> mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied
>>>>
>>> You mean /home/popuser_evelina2 doesn't exist and Dovecot doesn't have
>>> write permissions to /home? Choices would be:
>>>
>>> a) Create the directory automatically whenever you add new users
>>> b) Give Dovecot write permissions to /home
>>> c) If you're using PAM, use pam_mkhomedir
>>>
>>>
>> Actually the /home/popuser_evelina2 directory exists. I had thought
>> that we were making the directory. It's just the mail subdirectory that
>> is missing.
>>
>
> Then I guess your userdb isn't returning correct UID for the user.
> You're using system users?
>
>
Yes, the system users (/etc/passwd) files. Here's that dovecot.conf
file. I would have hoped that it would have been able to create the
mail folder, if it was not there.
--
Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP
Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant
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[/root] dovecot -n
# 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap pop3
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: SpamZapper Email ready.
mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10
mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10
mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3
verbose_proctitle: yes
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
mmap_disable: yes
mail_nfs_storage: yes
mail_nfs_index: yes
lock_method: dotlock
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu
auth default:
username_format: %Lu
verbose: yes
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /home/dovecot.passwd
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /home/dovecot.passwd
userdb:
driver: passwd
