Er, actually, his problem isn't that he is failing to access pam due to
a permission problem - its becuase he didnt compile pam support into
exim at all.
You might want to try looking at the actual error message before giving
an answer..
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <baptista@???> [20011016 00:45]: writing on the subject '[Exim] SMTP AUTH and PAM'
> |
> | Hi all,
> | I tried to setup exim server SMTP AUTH in a exim 3.12 server.
> | I got the following errors in syslog:
> |
> | 2001-10-15 18:34:15 Authentication failed for (user)
> | [200.165.229.162]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: unknown
> | condition "pam"
> |
> | My exim.conf has:
> |
> | plain:
> | driver = plaintext
> | public_name = PLAIN
> | server_set_id = $2
> | server_condition = ${if pam{$2:$3}{1}{0}}
> |
> | login:
> | driver = plaintext
> | public_name = LOGIN
> | server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
> | server_condition = ${if pam{$1:$2}{1}{0}}
> | server_set_id = $1
> |
> | In /etc/pam.d/exim I have
> |
> | auth required pam_unix.so nullok
> | account required pam_unix.so
> | session required pam_unix.so
> |
> | What can be wrong?
> | TIA, Paulo Henrique
> |
> |
>
> Take a look here - http://www.e-admin.de/pam_exim/
>
>
> -Wash
>
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