dovecot - Nov 2010 - pam authentication error

Hi all,

I compiled Dovecot 1.2.16 (on Debian 5/lenny) and followed the quick
configuration guide (wiki.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration). I just need
plaintext authentication. After starting Dovecot I get "Last died with
error" and in var/log/mail.err:
Nov 23 15:06:55 debian dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: Support not compiled
in for passdb driver 'pam'
Nov 23 15:06:55 debian dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too
early - shutting down

In /etc/pam.d/dovecot:
auth	required	pam_unix.so
account	required	pam_unix.so

In /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf:
passdb pam {
    args = *
}

So, what may be wrong with my configuration?
Oliver

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Oliver Berse <mail at oliver-berse.de>
wrote:
> Nov 23 15:06:55 debian dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: Support not compiled
> in for passdb driver 'pam'
>
Probably this  ^^ ?

Anyway, since you seem to be testing dovecot, why not use the debian package
instead ( you could probably use the one from backports if the one in lenny
is too old).

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 15:58 +0100, Oliver Berse wrote:
> Nov 23 15:06:55 debian dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: Support not compiled
> in for passdb driver 'pam' 
You didn't have libpam0g-dev package installed when compiling Dovecot.