Re: [Exim] Gallery of Clever Code?

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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Gallery of Clever Code?


> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
>
> > since yesterday i thought of another way, something like authdaemon
> > (of courier fame), listening on a socket, and exim being on the other
> > side (i'm not too familiar with sockets any deep, so i don't really
> > have the exact words, but i'm sure you understand what i mean:). this
> > could save the invocation time of an external authenticator, still
> > being a very flexible way of adding own mechanisms.
>
> I believe this kind of thing is what the PAM interface is supposed to
> provide.
you could also use embedded perl with auth which can call an external
program or to a socket though it does add a bit of overhead. (good for a
temp fix anyways )
ie server_condition ="${perl{AUTH}{$1}{$2}}"
HTH
cya
Andrew




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