On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > A0037: There is a problem using PAM on Linux with shadow passwords when the
> > calling program is not running as root. Exim is normally running as the
> > Exim user when authenticating a remote host. I don't know of an easy
> > resolution to this.
>
> This is very true on any modern Unix system.
It seems a pity that PAM authentication is restricted to root. One might
have hoped that a supposedly flexible system would have some
configuration that allowed the sysadmin to list uids that were permitted
to use it. Otherwise you end up running more things as root that you
really need to.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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