Re: [Exim] Configuration of authentication

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Configuration of authentication
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:59:32PM +0100, Oliver Egginger wrote:
[authentication]
> -------------------------------------------------------> SNIP
> login:
>    driver=plaintext
>    public_name=LOGIN
>    server_condition="${if pam{$1:$2}{true}{false}}"
>    server_prompts="Username:: : Password::"
>    server_set_id=$1
> <------------------------------------------------------- SNIP

>
> This will do a cleartext authentification on the basis of
> PAM. We (my organisation) decide that in combination with TLS there is
> now need for us to encipher the passwords separately within the (secure)
> SMTP connexions.
>
> Also PAM gives us the freedom to switch our prefered
> authentification mechanism easily.
>
> We use Exim 4.10 but the shown configuration lines should also
> work for Exim 3.36.

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Where are your passwords really stored? If they reside in /etc/shadow
afaik you'd need to add the exim user to group shadow (on Linux).
                   cu andreas