Autor: Phil Brutsche Fecha: A: Dan Weber Cc: exim-users Asunto: Re: [Exim] SASL AUTH
Dan Weber wrote:
> Is it possible to use SASL for authentication on exim.
Through saslauthd.
> A) it allows me to do pam and B) Ldap which are what I need.
> This keeps exim away from root.
SASL is not needed, nor is PAM. Exim can speak to LDAP servers
directly, if compiled correctly.
Additionally, using PAM for authentication does not automatically mean
that the service *needs* root access. The service needs enough access
to be able to use the password database. If you use LDAP, any number of
SQL servers, Samba's winbind, or pam_smb for passwords root access is an
unnecessary complication.
