On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:24:20PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> PAM is a dynamically loaded set of libraries. It runs as the UID of
> the invoking process - other than a few special cases such as a setuid
> helper for the pwdb module (which reads shadow, but refuses to return
> data other than for the UID it is invoked by). This is a place where
> Unix could do with authenticated subsystems such as in the late
> lamented Apollo Domain/OS
Assumning this is correct, why doesn't adding the exim user to group
shadow make this work?
Christi
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