Re: [Exim] Authentication with PAM

Christopher Curtis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to set up authentication. I'm basicly following C039 (after
> > finding out that I can't use pam to look in the /etc/shadow file). This
>
> Why is this? I have exim authenticating against /etc/shadow --

I tried authenticating against /etc/shadow, but it wouldn't work. After
trying to debug the thing, I dug into the exim-users list archives. I
found out that cause exim authenticates while being UID=8 the PAM's will
not authenticate. They will only grant that to processes that have read
privileges on /etc/shadow.

<cut your setup>

> The exim configuration is already in Debian's default configuration file,
> all I had to do was uncomment it, and the PAM setup I found somewhere out
> in the archives (not sure if it was Exim archives or Debain though).

But now I am confused.... You state the precise opposite. What version
are you running? I use the one in the debian/stable (3.12-10). You
probably not. If not, my guess is that exim is now using root privileges
to authenticate... Maybe I just have to try debain/testing.

Thnx Tim