Bug#788997: cyrus-imapd-2.4: user_deny.db gets wrong ownership when it is created

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Wed Jun 17 14:27:02 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 17:55, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> It seems like Cyrus does not create "user_deny.db" with correct
> ownership which causes the following to appear in syslog each time on
> client login:
> 
> > cyrus/imap[14182]: IOERROR: opening /var/lib/cyrus/user_deny.db: Permission denied
> > cyrus/imap[14182]: DENYDB_ERROR: opening /var/lib/cyrus/user_deny.db: cyrusdb error
> 
> The given file is owned by root:root but should be cyrus:mail. Removing
> this file does not help, as it is re-created again.

You can leave it empty (as created), but with the proper permissions,
and that should work as a workaround.

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