[ILUG] dovecot permission denied problems.

[david]

John Mc Donald wrote:

>I am trying to setup dovecot on a FC4 machine. Access to the machine is
>provided through pam. When I login to the machine my home directory is
>mounted over nfs from a central file server. I have dovecot installed
>and running but it can't seem to access my home directory. When I try
>and access my mail I get the following three lines in /var/log/maillog:
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>>Jul 25 12:46:04 escher imap-login: Login: ###### [::ffff:###.###.###.###]
>>Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: chdir(/home/######) failed with uid
>>####: Permission denied
>>Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: child 13182 (imap) returned error 89
>>    
>>
>
>The uid that is used is the one associated with my home directory. As
>far as I understand it when you connect to dovecot the imap connection
>setuid's to the uid of the authenticated user so there should be no
>permission problems.
>
>To try and help in the debugging process I also setup a local user
>"testimap" using
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>>/usr/sbin/useradd -d /tmp/testimap testimap
>>    
>>
>
>I then try to use thunderbird to connect to it and I get the following
>in /var/log/maillog
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>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap-login: Login: testimap
>>[::ffff:###.###.###.###]
>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): mbox: Can't create root IMAP
>>folder /tmp/testimap/mail: Permission denied
>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): MAIL environment missing and
>>autodetection failed (home /tmp/testimap)
>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher dovecot: child 13360 (imap) returned error 89
>>    
>>
>
>Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>
>TIA,
>John.
>
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Is this another example of SELinux messing in FC4?

This sounds similar to the problem Im having with SAMBA

Any thoughts??

D