On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Ron McKeating wrote:
> Hi has anybody written a howto on using authenticated SMTP with pam.
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040531/072441.html
: It is rather difficult to install Debian 3.0 without PAM. ;-) But no,
: you do not need PAM for exim's SMTP AUTH. exim can fetch passwords and
: usernames from plain-text files, SQL databases, sasauth or even PAM,
: however using PAM to authenticate against local users will not work with
: pam_unix, because exim does not run PAM as root. You would have to use
: one of these solutions to sidestep this issue:
:
: * Use pam_exim. (no Debian package)
: * Use saslauthd. (not possible on Debian woody)
: * Use a simple cronjob to copy /etc/shadow to a file readable by exim
:
: */10 * * * * chown root:mail /etc/exim4/passwd && chmod 0640 /etc/exim4/passwd && egrep -v '^root|^[^:]*:.:' /etc/shadow | cut -f1-2 -d: > /etc/exim4/passwd
:
: and use an lsearch lookup on this file.
Tony.
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