Re: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-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.

Re: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But exim *must* run as root to be able to authenticate using the system > passwords in /etc/shadow. I know of no way around it, except for making > /etc/shadow world readable, which is even more dangerous than having exim > run as root. Why is this? I

RE: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > But isn't that a bad thing(tm) ? It can be. > Surely you must be able to get a simple yes no on auth out of PAM with > it rather doing things as root? Sure, PAM works fine without exim ru

RE: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Eugene van Zyl
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Re: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > I'm trying Exim to authenticate users for mail relay using the SMTP > AUTH interface. I've recompiled the Debian Exim 3.12-10 source package > with the standard/default settings and