On 26.10.2012, at 14.44, tony.blue.mailingl...@gmx.de wrote: > Oct 25 23:37:13 gustav dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: > connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied > (euid=501(andy) egid=100(users) missing +w perm: > /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) > ... > Oct 25 23:37:14 gustav dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: > connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied > (euid=500(tony) egid=100(users) missing +w perm: > /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) > ... > > Dovecot is installed as !include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext. For all users > there is a entry in der /etc/dovecot/users. > > Usaly the user rights are set to 600. I tryed 755, but I get the same > errormessage.
0755 is basically the same as 0600 for sockets, since you disabled writes for others. Use 0777 to give everyone permissions.
