Running "saslpasswd2 user", failed after giving the password for the user. So, I trussed saslpasswd2 to see why. The problem was that saslpasswd2 was trying to access the database /opt/csw/etc/sasldb2. Unfortunately, this file already existed, but was a directory created by the Blastwave CSWsasl package. Removing the dir, and rerunning the saslpasswd2 command, created the database ok, and after that authentication worked. I'll currently using the stable bransh: CSWsasl, VERSION: 2.1.21,REV=2005.09.07 PSTAMP: apollo20051001155250 CSWsaslauthd, VERSION: 2.1.21, PSTAMP: apollo20050605181640 Re, /P