Dear list, I'm not sure whether this is a LDAP config issue og a cyrus issue, threfore I post the question here as well as on the comp.mail.imap news group. My problem is that I cannot get users authenticated to cyrus so I can start adding mailboxes. I'm using Openldap 2.0.7 compiled from source and Cyrus 2.0.9 installed from the beta rpm form RH71. usr/bin/cyrus is running, but when I try to login with cyradm to install som mailboxes, I get nothing. that is everything hangs. The same happens when i try telnet localhost imap I get: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to mailserver. Escape character is '^]'. then nothing. Can anyone give me a hint to what to do? THe imapd.conf tile is set to auth through pam and the imap pam file is from the ldap_pam module from padl. I have no problem using this for other servicews like su, sshd and login, but for imap it does not work. Is it possible to link cyrus directly to ldap w/o going through pam? Is that the soloution? Also, I get a compile errot if I try to compile cyrus-sasl : *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -ldes. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library *** or is declared to -dlopen it. Could this be the problem, if so, what should I do? I'm greafull for all imput that helps me solve this problem. Tarjei