<DIV id=wmMessage> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Nov 2 23:03:17 liberty dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc10 starting up<BR>Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down<BR>Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it<BR>? Check with dovecot --build-options)<BR>Nov 2 23:10:43 liberty dovecot: child 12655 (auth) returned error 89<BR>Nov 2 23:10:43 liberty dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Below is what I used to configure and install dovecot per the quick configuration instructions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>./configure</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>make</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>sudo make install</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I created the dovecot user and group as shown below</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>/etc/passwd</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>dovecot:x:503:503::/home/dovecot:/bin/bash</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>/etc/group</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>dovecot:x:503:</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV>Created /etc/pam.d/dovecot</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>auth required system-auth<BR>account required system-auth</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jaysen<BR></DIV></DIV>
On 3.11.2006, at 12.17, jaysen at 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 installYou most likely don't have libpam-devel or similar package installed, so PAM support wasn't compiled in. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20061103/96c50810/attachment.pgp
<div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>I've also tried <STRONG>--with-pam</STRONG> and <STRONG>--enable-pam</STRONG> on the configure line. I did not get any errors during make or make install however it still did not compile with pam support.</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>I appreciate everyones time for helping me however this problem still exists. More suggestions are appreciated</div> <div> </div> <div>Thank You</div> <div> </div> <div>Jaysen <BR></div> <DIV id=wmMessageComp name="wmMessageComp"><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [Dovecot] installation problem<BR>From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi><BR>Date: Fri, November 03, 2006 5:22 am<BR>To: jaysen@emtjaysen.net<BR>Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org<BR><BR>On 3.11.2006, at 12.17, jaysen@emtjaysen.net wrote:<BR><BR>> Nov 2 23:03:18 liberty dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb <BR>> driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it<BR>> ? Check with dovecot --build-options)<BR>..<BR>> ./configure<BR>> make<BR>> sudo make install<BR><BR>You most likely don't have libpam-devel or similar package installed, <BR>so PAM support wasn't compiled in. </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>