-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Why is this? It would seem that unix_chkpwd would be able to do this, > and afaik, pam_unix uses it automatically. At least, it did on RHL. unix_chkpwd only authenticates the calling uid. It won't work for general use ie for exim to authenticate. > Am I missing something in the way Debian stuff is set up? Hmmm... it > looks like it may only let you auth against the id calling it, which > would explain the difficulty. Though a similar program should be > written to do the same, so other programs can run without root. And one has. Hence my suggestion to use the perl capabilities of exim, so that such a program can be used for authentication. I can make the sources available under the GPL, if you like. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE600os/ZTSZFDeHPwRAokoAKCfKn/eG5Mxryqz11QdI79T8p0RogCgkLVy ZJrCjB1Xhy0Ce6YX1ZA2mPw= =BNo4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
