Re: [Exim] SMTP Auth on Freebsd - Not possible do to permiss…

Derrick wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that SMTP Auth is not doable on FreeBSD because
> /etc/master.passwd is rw only for root.wheel.. Is it possible to create a
> script to dump the password field out of the master.passwd field into
> either the /etc/passwd file?

No

> or cut the username and passwords out of master.passwd into a new file?
> Am I missing something dramatically here, I have been diggin through the
> archives, and this seems to be what I'm seeing, or at least it's the most
> common answer I have come across.

There are other ways of authenticating users, usually by a "middle-man" that
has root access, whom exim will talk to.

I've used RADIUS with pam_radius, for example.


Phil