[Dovecot] failed with uid Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 19:33 +0200, Rein Laaneser wrote:
> Hi
> Does somebody know the workaround
> I have some users, who are able to log in to dovecot but others not.... 
> even the failpermissions in directories are same. Also mbox folder is 
> excatly same  mail
> 
> Some settings in /etc/dovecot.conf 
> 
> first_valid_uid =  500
> last_valid_uid =  1500
> first_valid_gid = 500
> last_valid_gid = 515

These don't really matter.

> So the "someuser" is able to log in but "testuser" not
> log from testuser logging in  
> 
> somehost imap-login: Login: testuser [193.x.x.x]
> somehost dovecot: chdir(/home/guest/testuser) failed with uid 893: 
> Permission denied

Who owns /home/guest/testuser? It should be the user with UID 893. And
does that user have execute access to /home and /home/guest?

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