I would expect it to, since Mac OS X *is* UNIX. Yep, just Googled it - a whole 10 seconds to verify that Mac OS X supports pam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Blondé -----Original Message----- From: cyrus-sasl-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cyrus-sasl-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dieter Kluenter Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:09 AM To: Christopher Hunt Cc: cyrus-sasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: unknown authentication mechanism: pam on mac os x build Christopher Hunt <huntc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://www.dkluenter.de GPG Key ID:8EF7B6C6
