dovecot - Jan 2022 - Doveadm auth fails

I'm still troubleshooting a faulty email server, and got the following
results when I tried doveadm:

kwright at grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ doveadm auth lookup me at mydomain.com
Error: auth-master: passdb lookup(me at mydomain.com): Auth PASS lookup
failed
Error: passdb lookup failed for me at mydomain.com
kwright at grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ doveadm auth test me at mydomain.com
Password: 
Error: auth-client: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot/auth-client:
connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: Permission denied
(euid=1000(kwright) egid=1000(kwright) missing +r perm:
/var/run/dovecot/auth-client, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)
kwright at grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ ls -la /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan  4 19:09 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client

I see /var/run/dovecot/auth-client only has read and write permissions
for the owner and nothing for anyone else.  Is this part of my problem?

Ken

> kwright at grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ ls -la /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan  4 19:09 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> 
> I see /var/run/dovecot/auth-client only has read and write permissions
> for the owner and nothing for anyone else.  Is this part of my problem?

That is same for me
   [root at host /]# ll /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
   srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan  4 15:31 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client

> Error: auth-client: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot/auth-client:
> connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=1000(kwright) egid=1000(kwright) missing +r perm:

It might be failing you at the prompt because you are running doveadm as
kwright.
Try running the command as root.