Re: [exim] SMTP Authentication out of the box

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:14, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:02 +0000, Ron McKeating wrote:
> > For those of you who wanted to know what the solution was here is a
> > detailed note for your info. This will allow you to do authenticated
> > smtp over ssl with the standard exim just using pam.
>
> Thanks. In fact using PAM was too painful for Fedora since I really
> didn't want to get involved with making the pam_exim module generic
> enough to advocate including it, and obviously I couldn't just
> make /etc/shadow readable by non-root by default.
>
> However, I've fixed the Fedora Core RPM to include Cyrus saslauthd
> authentication in its default configuration file (with an empty string
> in auth_advertise_hosts to disable it by default) so that Fedora users
> ought to be able to get SMTP AUTH working more easily in future.

Not sure why anyone would want to bother to set up the sasl authd when
pam comes with fedora and works out of the box with minimal config.
There is no need for pam_exim any longer.

Ron

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