On 2004-04-18 Jonathan Telep <jtelep@???> wrote:
> Does anyone know which Debian PAM packages I need to have installed
> on my server for Exim to be able to use SMTP AUTH in order to
> authenticate users?
None. Exim can do SMTP AUTH fine without using PAM. Authentication
information can be pulled from flat files, *SQL, LDAP, ...
> I looked in Aptitude and there must be over 30 entries for "libpam".
And every single one of the has a useful package desription that
aptitude will glady show. SCNR. ;-)
> I was curious, so I wouldn't have to install every one, which one(s)
> I need to have installed for this to work.
See above. We have no idea by which means you are managing
authentication on your machine.
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.SMTP-AUTH
| if you want to authenticate against
| system passwords (e.g. /etc/shadow) I suggest to use saslauthd in the
| Debian package sasl2-bin. [...]
cu andreas
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