Re: [exim] After upgrade I get "Module not present"

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Author: Magnus Holmgren
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] After upgrade I get "Module not present"
On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:49, John Robinson wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 4. I'm finally fed up with coping with Exim 4.43 as
> supplied with CentOS 4, so I got 4.66 from atrpms.net. The following
> authenticator used to work correctly:
>
> plain:
>    driver = plaintext
>    public_name = PLAIN
>    server_prompts = :
>    server_condition = ${if pam{$2:${sg{$3}{:}{::}}}{yes}{no}}
>    server_set_id = $2

>
> But now with my 4.66, and with $X replaced with $authX, I get:
> 2007-02-10 14:34:50 plain authenticator failed for yuiop.plus.com
> ([192.168.1.10]) [81.174.136.241]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present
> (set_id=john): Module is unknown


The error message "Module is unknown" comes from PAM itself. I haven't studied
the PAM code extensively, so I can't say what the exact problem is; it could
be that a PAM module referenced in the PAM config is missing, or that it
couldn't be loaded.

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