I've run tests (exim -d+expand -be) with exim both as root and as exim.
(I'm running RH9 with PAM 0.75. I created a pam.d/exim file by hand
modelled after the one used for IMAP on my system.)
The test run as root succeeds, validating my authenticator code.
The test run as exim fails.
Before I give up on PAM and start looking at other options, can I double
check if there's anything special I should be doing for my PAM config
(pam.d/exim) please? According to the Exim docs PAM 0.72 and up should
support checking from a non-root account so I had expected using PAM to
work.
Thanks
Phil Jordan
On Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 2:26 am, Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote
>On Jul 27, 2004, at 7:45 PM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>> If Exim is not running as root, then, when using PAM, it is not able to
>> read /etc/shadow, and so it cannot authenticate users. One work-around
>> is to run exim as root, but that's a very bad idea. I prefer not to use
>> PAM at all. There are other solutions to get SMTP authentication to
>> work.
>I just tested it under FC2 as a normal user.
>
>No problems using PAM here :)
>
>Nathan.
>
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