dovecot - Dec 2007 - 1.0.8 install trouble on Ubuntu dapper (PAM)

Hi,

I was running the Ubuntu dovecot package until now, and decided to
upgrade because of an issue with Thunderbird. I downloaded and
compiled 1.0.8, and it's not starting up. The error I'm getting is:

Dec  2 15:35:04 jfootoo dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 
'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with 
dovecot --build-options)
D

I used "./configure" and "./configure --with-pam", both give
the same
error message.
dovecot --build-options gives:
uild options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify ipv6 openssl
SQL drivers:
Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow
Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file static

I have a dovecot that I compiled for a different system and
it includes "pam" in the Passdb line.

I found a page on the web saying I might need the pam-devel package,
but that doesn't seem to exist for ubuntu.


I saved the output from ./configure, grepped for pam, and got:

checking for pam_start in -lpam... no

Any ideas? What do I need to get configure to do pam support?

Thanks very much

j

> I found a page on the web saying I might need the pam-devel package,
> but that doesn't seem to exist for ubuntu.
> 
> I saved the output from ./configure, grepped for pam, and got:
> checking for pam_start in -lpam... no
Yup, that needs to be "yes".
> Any ideas? What do I need to get configure to do pam support?
The pam devel package. :-)

In the debian based world, the equivalent of *-devel packages are named
*-dev. So yes, basically you need exactly what you read about. Just with
a slightly adjusted package name. (The exact package name varies on
distro. Hence, in the RPM world usually the suffix devel is used.
However, added lib prefixes and version numbers do differ frequently.)

A quick google search for "ubuntu dapper pam dev" seems to suggest,
the
package you want is... *drumroll*

  libpam0g-dev  - Development files for PAM

Have fun...

  guenther


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