On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:59 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Ideally someone would modify pam_exim (or better pam_unix so its:-
> * Vaguely acceptible
> * Can support checks from a specific user specified in the pam
> control file rather than a separate hard compiled in user.
That involves making the unix_chkpwd helper program actually capable of
parsing the pam control files, which currently it's not. More reasonable
perhaps is the idea of using a predefined 'pamauth' group, membership of
which also gives you the capability to check passwords for users other
than yourself. I was poking at it and trying to work out the best way
forward when someone said "why not just use saslauthd". I couldn't
really come up with a coherent answer to that, so that's what I did.
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