Re: [Exim] SMTP auth config

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Shaun W. Kruger
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP auth config
Shaun W. Kruger wrote:
> I've been fighting with the SMTP auth configuration for a couple of days and
> can't seem to get all the variables right. I have the following:
>
> /etc/pam.d/exim:
> auth required pam_unix.so
> #auth required pam_radius_auth.so
> account required pam_unix.so
> password required pam_unix.so
> session required pam_unix.so


The problem is (as discussed very often here) that exim does not run as
root when it does the authentication, so it's not allowed to check
against /etc/shadow, please check http://www.gietl.com/pam_exim/.


Nico