Re: [Exim] AUTH_LOOPBACK, anyone?

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Autor: Jim Knoble
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] AUTH_LOOPBACK, anyone?
Circa 2001-Nov-01 14:49:05 +0100 dixit bhoc@???:

: > Isn't this called RADIUS?
:
: Yes, sort of. Poor man's RADIUS, I'd say ;-)
:
: And then there's RFC 2222 (and a bunch of others, I guess). The
: problem is that the [*x] community could not yet agree upon a
: commonly supported method (i.e. one that you find in every
: distribution - some use shadow, others use ldap, then there's PAM,
: squid again rolls its own methods... hasn't there yet a
: standardizable method emerged that is simple and secure enough to be
: accepted everywhere? Would make *much* easier... so for an
: application the only thing is a call to, say, auth_user () and
: that's it. I know, PAM does something similar, but I'd prefer some
: RFC-backed solution...

You might mean something like bsd_auth:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=authenticate&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bsd_auth&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

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