On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <20030423162654.782b916d.bcouto@???>,
> Bruno Couto <bcouto@???> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > i want to configure my exim 3.35 to use smtp authentication whith NIS.
> > but i not have any idea to write the server_condition parameter to do this.
> >
> > server_condition = "${if crypteq{$2} {${lookup {$1} nis{shadow}
> >{${extract{2}{:}{$value}}}}}{1}{0}}"
>
> Normally, only root can read the NIS shadow map, and exim doesn't
> run as root most of the time...
http://www.e-admin.de/pam_exim/
gives one way of solving that problem.
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