cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory

[Igor Brezac]

On 18 Oct 2002, Erik Enge wrote:

> Erik Enge <eenge at prium.net> writes:
>
> > I'm compiling cyrus-imapd and cyrus-sasl 2.1.9 from source and
> > everything has gone fairly good until now.  I don't understand why I
> > get this error message:
> >
> >   Oct 17 18:25:04 localhost imapd[6803]: cannot connect to saslauthd
> >   server: No such file or directory
> >   Oct 17 18:25:04 localhost imapd[6803]: badlogin: box1.ourdomain
> >   [192.168.1.194] plaintext testuser SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
>
> I have some more information to offer.
>
> If I try to start saslauthd by hand, like this:
>
>   saslauthd -m /var/run/mux -a pam
>

I suspect that saslauthd never starts, verify with 'ps'.  Check syslog;
saslauthd displays messages to the auth syslog facility.

-Igor

> and then do this:
>
>   echo 1 > /var/run/mux
>
> I get:
>
>   bash: /var/run/mux: No such device or address
>
> Isn't that a bit odd?  Perhaps that is what my error is really about?
>
> I've tried adding all my binaries and libraries in the PATH (I have
> --prefix set to a non-standard place) but that didn't seem to help,
> either.
>
> If anybody could shed any light on this, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik.
>

-- 
Igor