I have checked my system and you are right about one thing.  I do not have libpam-devel installed.  I also checked to see if such a package exists for Fedora 5 and I am not able to find one. 

 

I've also tried --with-pam and --enable-pam on the configure line.  I did not get any errors during make or make install however it still did not compile with pam support.

 

I want to mention that I have had dovecot working on this same machine before when I first installed the system.  I was using the RPM install.  The only reason I am no longer using the RPM install is because I have a source install of MySQL installed for my LAMP server.  The RPM of dovecot insists I install the MySQL RPM to resolve a dependency (why I do not know since I do not use MySQL with dovecot).  I cannot run the RPM of mysql as it would conflict with my source install of MySQL.

 

I appreciate everyones time for helping me however this problem still exists.  More suggestions are appreciated

 

Thank You

 

Jaysen 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] installation problem
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, November 03, 2006 5:22 am
To: jaysen@emtjaysen.net
Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org

On 3.11.2006, at 12.17, jaysen@emtjaysen.net wrote:

> 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)
..
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install

You most likely don't have libpam-devel or similar package installed,  
so PAM support wasn't compiled in.