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Re: [Exim] Authenticated smtp   Message List  
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Re: [Exim] Authenticated smtp

On Jul 27, 2004, at 7:45 PM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> If Exim is not running as root, then, when using PAM, it is not able to
> read /etc/shadow, and so it cannot authenticate users. One work-around
> is to run exim as root, but that's a very bad idea. I prefer not to use
> PAM at all. There are other solutions to get SMTP authentication to
> work.

I just tested it under FC2 as a normal user.

No problems using PAM here :)

Nathan.

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Nathan Ollerenshaw - Unix Systems Engineer
ValueCommerce - http://www.valuecommerce.ne.jp/


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... I have tried this and it does not work. I am using fedora core 2 and the latest exim. I am unclear as to how exim pam and /etc/shadow interact. Basically... 		Ron McKeating
R.J.Mckeating@...
Send Email 		Jul 27, 2004
10:34 am

... If Exim is not running as root, then, when using PAM, it is not able to read /etc/shadow, and so it cannot authenticate users. One work-around is to run...
Anand Buddhdev
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Send Email 		Jul 27, 2004
10:57 am

... I just tested it under FC2 as a normal user. No problems using PAM here :) Nathan. -- Nathan Ollerenshaw - Unix Systems Engineer ValueCommerce -...
Nathan Ollerenshaw
nathan@...
Send Email 		Jul 28, 2004
2:31 am

... How did you test it? Did you try running exim -d+expand -be to test the expansion? Using exim's debugging can really help when you're trying to figure out...
Nathan Ollerenshaw
nathan@...
Send Email 		Jul 28, 2004
2:30 am

I've run tests (exim -d+expand -be) with exim both as root and as exim. (I'm running RH9 with PAM 0.75. I created a pam.d/exim file by hand modelled after the...
Phil Jordan
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Send Email 		Jul 29, 2004
12:25 am

... I have exactly the same thing here. I have had to resort to a hacked together authentication system that first looks at a flat file for a half dozen...
Stephen Gran
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Send Email 		Jul 29, 2004
1:04 am

... Sounds like something changed after RH9 to allow this. ... Personally, if it were me, I'd install yum, point the yum.conf at your nearest FC2 mirror and do...
Nathan Ollerenshaw
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Send Email 		Jul 29, 2004
2:59 am

... After input from Nathan and a few others I decided to try using it out of the box on my FC2 box. It works fine. no problems, this is my exim file in...
Ron McKeating
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Send Email 		Jul 29, 2004
8:26 am

Re the thread below, if I may attempt to summarise: * Many users of Exim cannot get PAM to authenticate for them if they're not running Exim as root. * Users...
Phil Jordan
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Send Email 		Jul 30, 2004
4:06 pm

I've run tests (exim -d+expand -be) with exim both as root and as exim. (I'm running RH9 with PAM 0.75. I created a pam.d/exim file by hand modelled after the...
Phil Jordan
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Send Email 		Jul 29, 2004
8:05 am
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