On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 05:12:38PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | > Here are some solutions to the problem : | > | > 1) Make /etc/shadow readable by the 'mail' user. | | I have chosen this solution and I have now trivial | question. How can I make shadow file readable by mail | user, too
Add the user 'mail' to the group 'shadow'. On my system, I noticed
that /etc/shadow's group was 'shadow' and it was group-readable.
| I have temporary set it to world readable and now AUTH
| works with exim emulation (exim with -bh swtich)
| where I send \0user\0pass base64 encoded string.
Right :-).
| But it doesn't work with Pegasus Mail.
Install 'tcpflow' and watch what is sent through the socket. You can
pipe it through 'base64-decode' to see what it sends as the
user/password.
(oh, BTW, when I set it up on the server here it will support Pegasus
Mail. That's a given.)
| Does anybody knows what are proper positions of
| username and password in that string
Nope :-).
| (is 2,3 or 1,2)?
That's what tcpflow should help determine. Actually, an easier way
would be to run
exim -d9
instead of the usual initscript and watch the output on your shell.
| And "server prompt" should be:
|
| server_prompts = "Username:::Password::" (as Vineet post)
|
| or
|
| server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::" (as ther is
| in example in exim.conf)
Are the quotes really there? If not, then I don't think there's any
difference in those other than readability. This is also equivalent :
server_prompts = <, Username: , Password:
(read the spec on lists to find out why)
HTH,
-D
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