Re: [exim] Configuring PAM on Solaris 9

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Tony Finch
Date:  
To: Tom Davidson
CC: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Configuring PAM on Solaris 9
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Tom Davidson wrote:

> I can't seem to get PAM working on Solaris 9 so that I can do authenticated
> SMTP over SSL/TLS authenticating with the user's unix login details.


Remember that Exim is running as the Exim user when authentication
happens, so the PAM lookup is not running with privilege. This is unusual
for PAM code so it may not work as expected. In particular you may have to
change permissions on the PAM password database (e.g. /etc/shadow). See
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingPam

Tony.
--
<fanf@???> <dot@???> http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\
N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\
\N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}