On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:06:12AM +0100, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> Dear all, I read the instructions (Andreas Gietl) to integrate PAM
> with exim using a custom module, but then had a try with what MacOSX
> 10.3 gives and found that with an exim pam configuration:
>
> /etc/pam.d/exim:
> auth required pam_securityserver.so
> account required pam_unix.so
>
> I can authenticate.
[...]
> Am I missing something important? Why do linux users need a custom module?
Because the implementation of pam_unix in Linux-PAM differs.
There is an additional check that disallows normal users (!=root) to
check other user's passwords.
cu andreas
