On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 22:02 +0200, Michael Köhler wrote: > I use Debian Squeeze and the sources from Stephan Bosch. A few weeks ago I´ve > upgraded from 2.0.11 to 2.0.13 and got an error
Well, I haven't done any changes.. > May 29 20:01:53 mailserver dovecot: dict: Error: Can't open configuration > file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext: Permission denied With the current design this config file is opened late after dropping privileges. > and I could see that /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext is owning by > root:root with 600. After changing to root:root 644 all works, but after each > upgrade all files in /etc/dovecot will be set to 600. This config file contains sql password, so it shouldn't be world-readable. Maybe it should be root:dovecot 640, because "dict" process runs as dovecot user by default (and I'd guess dovecot group).
