Re: [Exim] Security Considerations (AUTH + shadow)

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Lähettäjä: Frank Elsner
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Vastaanottaja: Lukasz Grochal
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Aihe: Re: [Exim] Security Considerations (AUTH + shadow)
On 12 Oct 2000 16:05:34 +0200 Lukasz Grochal wrote:
> Frank Elsner <Elsner@???> writes:
>
> > root runs a cronjob every hour (your milage may vary) which reformats
> > /etc/shadow into a file suitable for exim and then calls exim_dbmbuild.
>
> Not necessarily a good idea either, I think. Why not adding exim user to
> the shadow group (I believe you have a shadow group and have the permissions
> for /etc/shadow set correctly, ie: -rw-r----- user: root group: shadow).
> Still - this is not the way, I believe. I'd rather use PAM to do the
> authentication.


My /etc/shadow on Solaris 2.7 is

-r--------   1 root     sys       152249 Oct 12 14:40 /etc/shadow



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