Permission denied creating mailboxes

[Mike Nuss]

(top posting corrected)

Rob Tanner wrote:

>--On Friday, October 22, 2004 03:27:40 PM -0400 Mike Nuss <mnuss at ammasso.com>
>wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I've just installed cyrus-imapd-2.2.8 using the srpm from
>>http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/ and I am trying to create
>>the initial user mailboxes.
>><snip>
>>
>>I ran /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/mkimap as cyrus.
>>
>>Then I tried to use cyradm as "cyrus" to try to create a mailbox. I got the
>>following error:
>>
>>
>>-bash-2.05b$ cyradm localhost
>>IMAP Password:
>>
>>localhost.localdomain> cm user.test
>>createmailbox: Permission denied
>><snip>
>>
>>    
>>
>I'm not familiar with using mkimap (if I've ever used it, I've forgotten),
>but I would double check to be sure that the user/group under which the imap
>server is the user/group that owns all of the server's files.  Not only does
>the server need file system permissions in the /var/spool/imap partition, it
>needs similar permission in /var/imap to manipulate various resources such as
>mailboxes.db.
>
>-- Rob
>

There is no /var/imap directory. There is a /var/lib/imap directory, and 
everything in both /var/spool/imap and /var/imap are owned by cyrus:mail.

--
Mike

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