Re: [Exim] SMTP Auth against /etc/master.passwd on FreeBSD

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Alexander Sabourenkov
CC: Exim Users List
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP Auth against /etc/master.passwd on FreeBSD
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:35 , Alexander Sabourenkov <lxnt@???> said:

> Jez Hancock wrote:
>
> > And yet another idea I was playing with - ironically though cyrus-sasl failed to build
> > on my system which was why I moved to exim (from sendmail) in first place . Long story, but basically
> > cyrus-sasl was running nicely via sendmail until I tried to upgrade to a later version
> > of cyrus-sasl - at which the install borked - so I decided to change to exim.
>
> Note that you don't need to install all of SASL, nor you need to compile it
> all. You need only do:
>
> ./configure --with-pwcheck
> cd pwcheck
> make
> cp pwcheck /usr/local/sbin
>
> mkdir /var/pwcheck
> chown mail:mail /var/pwcheck
> chmod 750 /var/pwcheck
>
> pwcheck
>
> and if at that stage you have an exim binary compiled with
>
> CYRUS_PWCHECK_SOCKET=/var/pwcheck/pwcheck
>
> in Local/Makefile,
>

<snip>

On a related note, has anyone looked at supporting saslauthd (a super
pwcheck, supports pam without the pain and other things)?

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