[Dovecot] pam problems

[Matthieu Imbert]

Hi,

i'm quite new to dovecot.
i built it from the stable-1.0 sources.
i have the following error messages in syslog when trying to launch dovecot:

   dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
   dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb type 'pam'
   dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
   dovecot: child 373 (auth) returned error 89

i googled a bit, and found some posts on this mailing list describing 
the same problem, and the answer is that pam support is not compiled in.

So i tried to ensure pam support would be compiled:

i made sure that i have the proper libs. I work on debian so i did:

   apt-get install libpam-runtime libpam-modules

apt-show-version tells me the version numbers installed:

   ...
   libpam-modules/testing uptodate 0.76-22
   libpam0g/testing uptodate 0.76-22
   libpam-runtime/testing uptodate 0.76-22
   libpam-ldap/stable uptodate 140-1
   ...

my configure line is as follows:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-ssl=openssl 
--with-pam

when running configure, the only line related to pam is the following:

   checking for pam_start in -lpam... no

and at the end of the configure script i get the following summary:

   Building with user database modules   : static passwd passwd-file 
checkpassword (modules)
   Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow 
checkpassword (modules)

So it seems that pam support is not built in. What is the lib i am missing ?

Any help appreciated, thanks

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