Re: [Exim] Exim and separate passwd file

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Author: Andreas Gietl
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To: Andi Buechler, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim and separate passwd file
On Friday 02 January 2004 17:50, Andi Buechler wrote:

the easiest way would be to run exim in a chroot-environment with just that
passwd-file. Otherwise exim will always use the normal passwd for uid and
gid-lookups i guess.

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to convince exim to *only* use a separate password file
> instead of pam. So far I haven't found anything in the exim book or the
> internet covering that. Perhaps it's too obvious.... My /etc/exim/passwd
> file seems to be well formatted since exim is able to relay if I
> authenticate over this passwd file (checked that with different
> passwords in /etc/shadow and /etc/exim/passwd). But for downloading
> messages it still uses pam. Does anybody have a clue how to change this?
> I'm running exim 3.35-1 on debian.
>
> Andi
>
>
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