On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 00:48, Jez Hancock wrote:
> However the user that exim runs as (mail) doesn't have perms to read the /etc/master.passwd
> file resulting in predictable errors such as:
>
> 2003-04-21 20:12:20 login authenticator failed for 213-152-51-196.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (win2k01) [213.152.51.196]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present (set_id=munk): failed to open /etc/master.passwd for linear search: Permission denied (euid=26 egid=6)
>
> in the exim mainlog, /var/log/exim/mainlog.
>
> Can anyone suggest possible methods for allowing users to authenticate against the system pwd
> database?
Just maintain a local copy of /etc/master.passwd, with the appropriate
permissions and ownership, in (say) /etc/exim/
Or use cyrus sasl's pwcheck method to AUTH - you'd have to recompile
exim to enable auth pwcheck after installing SASL's pwcheck.
srs
