Re: [Exim] Exim and PAM, again

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim and PAM, again
Phil.Pennock@??? said:
> Depends - are you trying to get Exim to authenticate using the account
> system password? If so, doesn't unauthenticated use, if tried,
> immediately compromise the account if you allow normal logins with
> passwords (eg, via SSH)?


You need to run that one past me again :-)

Basically PAM is a reasonably complex and flexible beast... you can do
almost any form of authentication including RADIUS and potentially
challenge/response (although I think the SMTP auth protocol will die
there when using it with exim). Configuring PAM is a fairly complex
operation - most people (including myself for the most part) just use
predefined templates that come with packages.

    Nigel.
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