Re: [Exim] Authenticators for EXIM

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Autor: masta
Datum:  
To: Dan Egli
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] Authenticators for EXIM

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Dan Egli wrote:

> I'm trying to setup Mail Authentication for EXIM 3.35. And it's giving me a
> heck of a time.
>
> I first tried PAM, using the setup I had seen posted on the list before,
> namely:

....
> And I'm getting authentications rejected when the password is correct, or
> when it's incorrect. I'm at a stand still. Anyone got any ideas? This is
> RedHat 7.2 if that matters.
>
> My PREFERED authentication method would be MySQL but I'm willing to fall
> back to a password file or Pam for now.


If you want to use PAM, you need a special-pam-module IIRC it was named
pam_exim, just search for it on google.

AFAIK, the problem is, that exim doesn't run as root anymore, and so the
normal pam-modules fail.

ciao