On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 17:52 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 11:31 -0700, Steve Fatula wrote: > > dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) > > failed: Permission denied > > > The possibilities are: > > a) Start dovecot-lda so that the process belongs to extra group (e.g. > dovecot) and make the socket rw for that group. I don't know if Postfix > can do this for system users.. > > b) Use filesystem setgid bit for dovecot-lda > > c) Run via sudo > > The b) and c) are explained in wiki in the "multiple UIDs" section > (although for setuid-root rather than setgid-dovecot).
Oh, and d) With v2.1 this works automatically
