On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:23:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:56:22PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | > Is linux a system that requires root access to use PAM? If so, then | > pam can't be used directly by exim. You can, however, use a different | > lookup for users (eg look in a passwd file made just for exim, or use | > LDAP or SQL or something else). | | If you can't use PAM to do this, then is there a way to copy out PAM | data to an exim-compatible file?
Yeah, make a file (eg /etc/exim/passwd) such as
----
user:{md5}4528e6a7bb9341c36c425faf40ef32c3
----
(in this case, "user"'s password is "pass")
and use a variation on the sample authenticator created by eximconfig :
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = "${if crypteq{$2}{
${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd}{$value}{*}} } {1}{0} }"
server_set_id = $1
(this one is untested, but I did test a simple 'eq' and it worked)
Of course, one could always put login info in LDAP and use that
directly :-). I was hoping exim could get to LDAP via PAM instead.
(at work we're moving the authentication away from NIS and into LDAP)
| > I hope PAM can be used on linux ... someone please tell me if root is
| > required.
|
| <AOL!>
I needed dict to figure this one out. Definition #1 fits well, and is
amusing!
-D
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Windows, hmmm, does it come with a GUI interface that works or just
pretty blue screens?
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