unknown authentication mechanism: pam on mac os x build

[Dieter Kluenter]

Christopher Hunt <huntc at internode.on.net> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> Sorry to burden this list with such a basic question, but I've had a
> good go at trying to find an answer (this list might also be
> interested to learn that the web based interface to any of the
> archives isn't working either. :-P).
>
> Anyhow, I'm using Mac OS X.4.10 on x86 and I've built cyrus-
> sasl-2.1.22. This is what I've done:
>
> ./configure
> sudo make install
> mv  /usr/lib/sasl2  /usr/lib/sasl2.apple
> ln -s /usr/local/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl2

> /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a pam
>
> I then get the following returned:
>
> saslauthd[29519] :set_auth_mech   : unknown authentication mechanism:
> pam
>

Your either have not compiled saslauthd with PAM support, or libpam is
not present.
I don't know Mac OS X, (my last version was 7.2), so I don't know
wether Mac uses PAM at all, but I doubt it.

-Dieter

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