SASL2 will authenticate via pam if you use saslauthd (from memory, might not be entirely correct)
./configure --with-saslauthd --with-pam Then run saslauthd with the -a pam arg (check saslauthd.8) And use pwcheck_method=saslauthd Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luc de Louw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: Problem to authenticate unsing PAM > Hi > > I'm trying to build cyrus-imap 2.1.3 from source. > > First compiled sasl-2.1.2 > > ./configure --enable-plain --with-pam --disable-krb4 --enable-login > > made a symlink /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ -> /usr/lib/sasl2/ > > configured cyrus-imap > > ./configure --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0 --with-auth=unix > > make, created dirs etc. > > in imapd.conf like from 2.0.16: > sasl_pwcheck_method: pam > > /var/log/auth.log shows: > Apr 26 20:19:16 bond imapd[7118]: unknown password verifier pam > > someting strange is, the 2.0.16 binary from suse is linked to pam: > ldd /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd|grep pam > libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40302000) > > But not the binary from source (2.1.3) > > There is no configure option, so does cyrus-imap 2.1.3 not support pam > anymore? > Or what I made wrong? The goal is to authenticate users with PAM, and > here I got stuck > > thanks for any hints or some links to docs > > rgds > > Luc > > > > >
