On 18 Oct 2002, Erik Enge wrote: > Erik Enge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
