On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:26:57AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Just built exim 4.14 on debian sarge with kernel 2.4.20 and
> authentication is failing with PAM. The following lines are in syslog.
> Make install created a /usr/sbin/exim linked to the actual binary that
> is rws for root and running as id "mail" for ps -ef
> user id = hanasaki
> user id# = 1000
> ========= SYSLOG ENTRIES BELOW ============
[...]
> Mar 29 20:01:44 portal exim(pam_unix)[6107]:
> authentication failure;
> logname= uid=8 euid=8 tty= ruser= rhost= user=hanasaki
With pam_unix only root can check passwords of other users. You could
run exim as root (exim_user = root) but I wouldn't recommend it
because of the security implications.
You can work around this issue either by mirroring the passwords in
another file that is accesible for mail:mail and use an lsearch lookup
or you can try pam_exim.
cu andreas
