Re: [exim] smtp auth

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Συντάκτης: Nigel Metheringham
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Προς: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] smtp auth
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:03 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> A lot of setups want to have a dedicated password database for smtp
> authentcation. If you insist on using system passwords, exim can use
> PAM to authenticate against them.


However if your exim listener process is running as a basically
unprivileged user and your password database requires privilege to read
it (ie a standard /etc/shadow file) then PAM doesn't help (there was a
pam_exim module around to sort this - it uses a setuid helper in the
same way as the normal pam modules do if you are checking your own
password (in a screen saver for example), but I don't think its current
or maintained).

    Nigel.
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