On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> On Monday 07 July 2003 02:59 pm, Greg Owen wrote:
> > Summary: patch to make pam_exim function under RedHat 9 (SIGCHLD/SIG_IGN)
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Greg Owen wrote:
> > > I'm currently seeing the same problem using the pam_exim helper program
> > > from http://www.e-admin.de/pam_exim/. That fix uses a setuid PAM helper
> > > executable, which presumably is the subprocess involved.
>
> I've been using exim on RH9 with no problems, without any pam_exim. What is
> pam_exim used for?
pam_exim allows SMTP AUTH to function with system passwords (specifically,
those stored in /etc/shadow) without having to loosen permissions or make
copies with looser permissions.
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