dovecot - May 2006 - Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid xxx: Permission denied

I've had this issue for sometime, I finally gave up and switched to 
Courier-Imap but I'm finding I hate data storage / structure so I 
decided to give dovecot another go but am still running into the same issue.

I had this working once upon a time and can not for the life of me 
figure it out.

Here's some basic info.

Dist: Gentoo 2005.1
Emerge Info: net-mail/dovecot-1.0_beta8  USE="ipv6 pam ssl -debug 
-kerberos -ldap -mbox -mysql* -pop3d -postgres -vpopmail"

Permissions for /home: drwxr-x--x
Owner for /home: root
Permissions for /home/*: drwxr-xr-x
Owner for /home/*: username:username

dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   1       
PLAIN   service=IMAP    secured lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx      rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT  1
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden>
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client out: OK    1       
user=xxxx
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid 502: 
Permission denied
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST        
2       4464    1
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): master out: USER  2       
xxxx   system_user=xxxx       uid=502 gid=506 home=/home/xxxx
ovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<xxxx>, 
method=plain, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Error: child 4488 (imap) returned error 89

Only real resolution I can find refers to SELinux which I do not have 
installed.

I can provide my dovecot.conf if needed.

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 00:05 -0500, Nick Ortiz wrote:
> Permissions for /home: drwxr-x--x
> Owner for /home: root
> Permissions for /home/*: drwxr-xr-x
> Owner for /home/*: username:username
..
> dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid 502: 
> Permission denied
..
> Only real resolution I can find refers to SELinux which I do not have 
> installed.
So I'm assuming that the /home/xxxxx really is owned by the UID 502? Do
you use NFS or some other special filesystem? If the directory
permissions are correct and it's not SELinux or some other similar ACL
system which prevents the chdir(), then I've really no idea.

All the needed information for reproducing the problem should be there.
If you switch to effective uid 502 and do a chdir() call for that
directory, it should succeed. If it doesn't, there's something in kernel
preventing it.

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