Author: Brian Dessent Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] exim-4.30 segfaults using PAM
Wolfgang Schnerring wrote:
> I'm running Exim4 on Debian (exim4-daemon-heavy) and am experiencing
> problems with PAM-authentication.
What group are you running exim under? From README.Debian:
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> Misc Notes *********************************
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> PAM:
> On Debian systems the PAM modules run as the same user as the calling program,
> so they can't do anything you couldn't do yourself, and in particular can't
> access /etc/shadow unless the user is in group shadow. - If you want to use
> /etc/shadow for Exim's SMTP AUTH you will need to run exim as group shadow.
> Only exim4-daemon-heavy is linked against libpam.
>
> I suggest using saslauthd instead.
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