Hi Thomas, and happy new year :-)
I don't know Exim all that much, and its language's syntax not at all.
But this error you get, makes me think it may be a quoting issue, just
like if you write [ -n $foo ] instead of [ -n "$foo" ] in bash.
Le 2016-01-02 13:14, Thomas Stein a écrit :
> Hello.
>
> I already discussed my problem on github a little bit at
> https://github.com/Exim/exim/issues/38 but still did not figure
> out what is going wrong.
>
> Here my setup. It's a gentoo machine with exim 4.8.5. Tried 4.8.7_rc2
> too.
> Same result.
>
> I have a authenticator configured just like suggested at:
> https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingPamAndPasswords
>
> My problem is, as soon as i use /wrong/ credentitials i get "Unable to
> authenticate at present (set_id=username): missing or misplaced { or
> }". If i
> use the right credentials no problems at all.
>
> When i try to simulate this on the command line (as suggested at
> github) i
> get:
>
> Wrong user:
>
> exim # exim -be '${if exists{/etc/exim/passwd}
> {${lookup{eitadmin}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd} {${if crypteq{test}
> {\{md5\}${extract{1}{:}{$value}{$value}fail}} {true}{false} }} {${if
> pam{eitadmin:${sg{MyPassw0rd}{:}{::}} } {true}{false}} } }} {${if
> pam{eitadmin:${sg{MyPassw0rdaaa}{:}{::}} } {true}{false}} }}'
> Failed: missing or misplaced { or }
>
> User exists in /etc/exim/passwd:
>
> serve exim # exim -be '${if exists{/etc/exim/passwd}
> {${lookup{testuser}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd} {${if crypteq{test}
> {\{md5\}${extract{1}{:}{$value}{$value}fail}} {true}{false} }} {${if
> pam{testuser:${sg{MyPassw0rd}{:}{::}} } {true}{false}} } }} {${if
> pam{testuser:${sg{MyPassw0rdaaa}{:}{::}} } {true}{false}} }}'
> true
> serve exim # exim -be '${if exists{/etc/exim/passwd}
> {${lookup{testuser}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd} {${if crypteq{testit}
> {\{md5\}${extract{1}{:}{$value}{$value}fail}} {true}{false} }} {${if
> pam{testuser:${sg{MyPassw0rd}{:}{::}} } {true}{false}} } }} {${if
> pam{testuser:${sg{MyPassw0rdaaa}{:}{::}} } {true}{false}} }}'
> false
>
> So buttom line is. If the user does not exists i get "missing or
> misplaced {
> or }"
>
> Any hints a really appreciated.
>
> thanks and cheers
> t.
