Re: [exim] Options for authenticating against /etc/shadow (P…

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著者: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim users
題目: Re: [exim] Options for authenticating against /etc/shadow (PAM)withoutmaking exim suid root
2009/3/14 Jurrie Overgoor <jurrie@???>:
> On 2008-08-28 08:48, Jaco van der Schyff wrote:
>  > What are my options to auth against /etc/shadow using PAM without giving
>  > exim too much priviledges?
>  >
>  > I currently have two options: chgrp exim /etc/shadow or write an
>  > external authenticator (which is suid root) that returns a
>  > true/false which I can evaluate in exim.
>  >
>  > Any other ideas?
>
> I configured this today using pwauth. Pwauth
> (http://unixpapa.com/pwauth/) is an external authenticator as you
> mention as the second option. It is written with Apache in mind, because
> Apache suffers from the same problem: need to run as root to
> authenticate to /etc/shadow


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Any chance you could work up a wiki page for that tip? Looks very useful.

http://wiki.exim.org

Peter

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