[Dovecot] pam problems

[Matthieu Imbert]

Matthieu Imbert wrote:

> 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
> 

Simon Waters pointed me to the right direction to solve this:
simulate the installation of the dovecot debian package:

apt-get build-dep dovecot-common

with this, i was able to figure out that i was missing
libpam0g-dev. i installed it and now the compilation is ok

thanks Simon

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