Re: [exim] Change PAM service name

On 9/16/2020 3:40 PM, Yves Goergen via Exim-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Exim documentation [1] says:
>
> > The PAM module is initialized with the service name “exim”
>
> Can I change this? Is there a config option or something or should I
> give up my search and change my PAM configuration? I'd like to share
> the service with Dovecot (IMAP, POP3) to simplify the backend and
> prefer not to use the name "exim" for Dovecot as it could be
> confusing, but rather a generic name like "email".

Afraid not. You'd have to patch the code. But why bother? You can do the
same thing multiple ways. For example, I have Exim and Dovecot on my
server (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS), and both run as the user Debian-exim. Yes,
Dovecot isn't exim, but it's easy to make it work just the same. As for
PAM itself, I'd just do a hard link to the /etc/pam.d/exim file. Call it
dovecot or something maybe. But then you just point your Dovecot pam
system that way. I personally don't use PAM for exim. It wouldn't work
for what I need. But if you are already using PAM to authenticate exim
or other mail related programs against, then I see no reason why this
wouldn't work.

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--- Dan