Re: [Exim] is this safe?

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Autor: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] is this safe?
* Dan Egli <bitwize@???> [20040412 04:19]: wrote:

Hi Dan,

> Well, after doing a lot of research on the web, I found that people had
> had similiar PAM problems in Exim 3.xx, and that setting exim_user =
> root had fixed it.


Are you saying that you are running Exim 3.xx. Were it not Easter
Monday, and because you are already shooting yourself in the foot, I'd
put a gun on your head and fire off!! ;)


> So I tried it, and it worked at first, but then complained that user
> root in the remote_smtp was in the never_users list.


IIRC, that message requires that you define an alias for root, so that
root@??? -> bitwize@???....

> So I disabled the never_users option. It seems to work great now,
> but I want to make sure I'm not asking for problems in the future using
> this setup.


So are you saying that you are running Exim 3.xx?? And happily shooting
yourself in the foot despite all the warnings. Really Easter makes
people loose their guard. I did not imagine you could do this.


> Anyone else done this? What was your result?


They are all dead, so expect no answer from them. Dead men tell no
tales.


You know what? I found the SASLAUTHD option with Exim 4.x to have taken
all the load off my chest. I discarded all the funny scripts that I used
for handling ASMTP and settled for SASLAUTHD in production. I do admin
thought that I still have PWCHECK on some boxes, but that is just
because I haven't had the time to convert them.



        cheers
       - wash
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