On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Cory Daehn wrote:
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> is it complicated to set up PAM/SMTPauth/vdomain in exim 4.20, is there a
> simple step-by-step instruction list? would it be easier to use PAM or just
> use /etc/shadow? will PAM read the /etc/vmail/domain.passwd &
> /etc/vmail/domain.shadow for user authentication?
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> I'm using the virtual domains as set up by linuxconf.
You can't "just use /etc/shadow" with exim.
Exim is very security concious, and is not running as root when it
would need to access /etc/shadow; therefore it needs help to read
that file. One solution to this problem is
http://www.e-admin.de/pam_exim/
I don't know how this extends to vdomains.
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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