Re: [Exim] Authentication from system password

I'm using uw-imap for imap and pop. Not sure how that's relevant...

Derrick MacPherson wrote:

>What POP and IMAP daemons are you using??
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>From: exim-users-admin@??? [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On
>Behalf Of Mark Edwards
>Sent: October 13, 2003 4:13 PM
>To: exim-users@???
>Subject: [Exim] Authentication from system password
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>I've got the following as a PLAIN authenticator currently:
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>fixed_plain:
> driver = plaintext
> public_name = PLAIN
> server_condition = ${if eq{$3}
>{${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$2}lsearch{/usr/local/etc/exim/relayers}{$valu
>e}}}}}{yes}{no}}
> server_set_id = $2
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>This is on a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. What is the best way to change this
>to refer to system passwords for authentication? I tried:
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>server_condition = ${if pam{$1:$2}{1}{0}}
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>This seemed to allow authentication without the proper password, and it
>took a while to process the SMTP session. I'm guessing it failed after
>something timing out and allowed authentication. Perhaps because exim
>cannot access PAM if it isn't root?
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>What I'd like to do ideally is authenticate against system passwords,
>and keep exim running as an unpriviledged user (mailnull).
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>Thanks!
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