Re: [Exim] exim 4.14 build PAM problems (fails for shadow pa…

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Author: Josh Siegel
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To: Hanasaki JiJi
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim 4.14 build PAM problems (fails for shadow passwd)
Take a look at:

http://www.stormbirds.org/authcheck.cxx

-josh

Hanasaki JiJi wrote:

> searching for pam_exim brings up the following link.. following it leads
> nowhere... not very encouraging for code that is going to be an
> authentication module.
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pamexim/
>
> anythoughts on an enhancement something like this:
>     a new exim_auth program that runs as root
>     exim is still rws of root
>     exim spawns exim_auth at startup
>     exim permanantly changes its runid to
>         the id set in the make file
>     also... how about the ability to set the id/group
>         in the exim.conf file?

>
>         AND

>
>     a new compile time option to support courier imap
>         running courier imap-ssl + exim + maildir
>         courier already has an authdeamon

>
> Thank you
>
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
> ...
>
>> 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
>> /

>
>
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