I am running a Fedora 5 system and I would like to setup dovecot as
IMAP only for the purpose of running squirrelmail. I
compiled and installed the source per the documentations but get
the following errors in my maillog at startup.
Nov 2 23:03:17 liberty dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc10
starting up
Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot: Auth process died
too early - shutting down
Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot:
auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built
without support for it
? Check with dovecot
--build-options)
Nov 2 23:10:43 liberty dovecot: child 12655
(auth) returned error 89
Nov 2 23:10:43 liberty dovecot:
Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for
now
Below is what I used to configure and install dovecot per the quick
configuration instructions.
./configure
make
sudo make install
I created the dovecot user and group as shown below
/etc/passwd
dovecot:x:503:503::/home/dovecot:/bin/bash
/etc/group
dovecot:x:503:
Created /etc/pam.d/dovecot
auth
required
system-auth
account
required
system-auth
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? The documentation
said this was easy This is far from it. Any help is greatly
appreciated Additional info will be provided on request.
Jaysen