* Daevid Vincent wrote (20/11/06 06:42):
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: exim-users-bounces@???
>> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Daevid Vincent
>> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 7:50 PM
>> To: exim-users@???
>> Subject: [exim] Exim stopped allowing my Outlook to authenticate
>>
>> I think I updated PAM or something recently on my Gentoo
>> server, and now
>> Exim is broken...
You might need to recompile exim to use the updated pam libraries.
The revdev-rebuild tool might help. But see below...
[...]
>>
>> I'm hesitant to re-emerge the new version because I don't
>> know exim and
>> I'm afraid I'll just make things worse.
>>
>> * mail-mta/exim
>> Latest version available: 4.62
>> Latest version installed: 4.54
That upgrade shouldn't cause problems.
[...]
>
> daevid pam.d # cat /etc/pam.d/exim
> #%PAM-1.0
>
> auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> auth required pam_shells.so
> auth required pam_nologin.so
> account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>
It's possible that one of these pam modules isn't there any more.
If you've upgraded to pam-0.99 (which is masked), then pam-stack is not
available, for example.
So you might need to rewrite your pam config, or downgrade to pam-0.78.
Chris
