Ok, so if anyone runs into a problem where dovecot reports chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid NNN: Permission denied in Fedora Core 4 or otherwise, it seems to be a SELinux problem. Turn OFF SELinux and the problem goes away. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051009/52cbb2ad/attachment-0001.html>
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2005-Oct-09 16:39 UTC
[Dovecot] SOLVED: chdir failed: Permission denied
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 11:35 -0500, Joe Sislow wrote:> Ok, so if anyone runs into a problem where dovecot reports > > chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid NNN: Permission denied > > in Fedora Core 4 or otherwise, it seems to be a SELinux problem. Turn > OFF SELinux and the problem goes away.Or you could run "fixfiles relabel" to repair all the file contexts on your system. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051009/bfe86b3a/attachment.bin>