On 2023-10-20 Mihamina RKTMB via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Running Archlinux, I installed exim 4.96.2.
> I want to implement server side PLAIN and LOGIN auth against PAM.
[...]
> I think there is a problem with my "server_condition" in each authenticator,
> bu tI cannot figure out what is the problem
> Would you help, please?
When I tested this ages ago for Debian I ended up with this conclusion:
| On Debian systems the PAM modules run as the same user as the calling
| program, so they cannot do anything you could not do yourself, and in
| particular cannot access /etc/shadow unless the user is in group shadow.
| - If you want to use /etc/shadow for Exim's SMTP AUTH you will need to
| run exim as group shadow. [...] We suggest using saslauthd instead.
Using dovecot as AUTH proxy should also work.
cu Andreas
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