Re: [exim] Re: SMTP Authentication out of the box

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Autor: Tommy Butler
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A: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Cc: Andreas Metzler
Asunto: Re: [exim] Re: SMTP Authentication out of the box
Andreas Metzler wrote:

>>>Quote from Wiki:
>>>| Also I have exim run as group exim this group needs read access on
>>>|
>>>| /etc/shadow


not so, read on...

> Hello,
> You are free to break this on your own systems but I am unhappy to
> advertise this in the Wiki as "the zero-problems, simple solution":
>> So no need for sassl authd or pam_exim or anything else, it all just
>> works.
>
>>It is a compromise I know but if anybody has a better solution I am
>>happy to listen. And no I am not going down the sasl authd route.


What's wrong with:

usermod -G shadow Debian-exim
    -or if exim runs under user "exim"-
usermod -G shadow exim


Just add exim user to the shadow group. /etc/shadow is already group readable
by default. Done. How hard was that. It's what I did...

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Tommy Butler
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