Re: [Exim] Convincing Netscape to SMTP AUTH LOGIN

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Author: Christi Alice Scarborough
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To: Toshio Kumagai
CC: Exim Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Exim] Convincing Netscape to SMTP AUTH LOGIN
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 06:52:18AM +0900, Toshio Kumagai wrote:
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>     Thnak you for your reply.
>     PAM auth works well for me.
>     I've tried password auth described in config.sample/C034
>     but no lock.


What that document doesn't mention is that it's actually difficult/
impossible to get this to work if you are using shadow passwords,
since at the point exim is attempting to authenticate, it is running
with the exim uid and gid, and usually doesn't have permission to read
the password file. Details of the way I got around this are at:

http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20000911/021041.html

See the rest of the thread for a clearer explanation of the problem.

Christi

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