Re: [Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Richards
Daniel, Just wanted to respond back and let you know that changing permissions to dovecot:dovecot as you suggested seems to have resolved the issue; I've not seen any more occurrences of this error. Thanks again for your assistance! Chris On Sun, March 3, 2013 5:13 pm, Daniel Parthey wrote: > Hi

Re: [Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Richards
I was finally able to make this change. It doesn't appear to have broken anything, which is a plus. ;) I'll ping back in a couple of days or so and let you know if the issue appears resolved. Thanks again for your help! Chris On Sun, March 3, 2013 6:31 pm, Chris Richards wrote: > >> In order

Re: [Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-03 Thread Chris Richards
> In order for dovecot-lda to work, default internal user "dovecot" > seems to need permission for the user listing. This should work, > but you should try to narrow the permissions down: > > service auth { > unix_listener auth-userdb { > group = dovecot > mode = 0666 > user = doveco

Re: [Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-03 Thread Daniel Parthey
Hi Chris, Chris Richards wrote: > service auth { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > group = postfix > mode = 0666 > user = postfix > } > unix_listener auth-userdb { > group = vmail > mode = 0600 > user = vmail > } > user = $default_internal_user >

Re: [Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-02 Thread Chris Richards
Thanks for the links: those were what I followed when I set things up. The dovecot user is the $default_internal_user. hermes conf.d # dovecot -n # 2.1.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.4.2-hardened-r1-bordernet x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.1 ext4 auth_master_user_separator = * au

Re: [Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-02 Thread Daniel Parthey
Chris Richards wrote: > I've got a dovecot server running version 2.0.19 on Gentoo Hardened. I > have Postfix as my MTA, and it is calling the Dovecot LDA to deliver the > mail. Everything is working great, mail is being delivered, and the users > are happy. > > However, I am noticing that I hav

[Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket

2013-03-02 Thread Chris Richards
Greetings all. Please forgive me if I'm posting something that has already been addressed, but my google-foo is not strong enough to find the solution. I've got a dovecot server running version 2.0.19 on Gentoo Hardened. I have Postfix as my MTA, and it is calling the Dovecot LDA to deliver the