Re: [Exim] SMTP AUTH and PAM problems.

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Author: Christof Meerwald
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To: eric
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP AUTH and PAM problems.
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:21:46 -0800, Eric Bullen wrote:
>I am running Exim 3.12 and I can't seem to figure out why PAM support
>doesn't work correctly. Here's what I know about this one:


>5) The error that I get from exim is "535 Incorrect authentication data" and
>then it asks me to enter in the password again.

Do you use shadow passwords and exim doesn't run as root?

AFAIK, current versions of Linux-PAM have problems to access shadow
passwords if the program doesn't run as root...


bye, Christof

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