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 only added the TCP Wrappers and PAM support. The
exim and eximon packages generated successfully and installed fine. Only what
else should I do know to allow exim to use PAM? I've set up the fixed_plain and
fixed_login entries in the conf file with the server_condition for fixed_login
(which is what Outlook uses) as follows:
server_condition = "\
${if pam {$1:$2}{yes}{no}}"
The authentication log returns the following error when I try to authenticate:
PAM_unix[24311]: authentication failure; (uid=8) -> **unknown** for exim service
I've set up an exim config file in the /etc/pam.d/ dir with auth and account
required. From the above (and the spec.txt file in the exim docs) it looks like
it expects an exim user with UID 8 to initialise the PAM service, but mail is
already specified as the UID 8 GID 8 and I don't know what'll break if I rename
mail to exim. Is it possible to create a user alias ? i.e. exim and mail is
really the same user, same passwd etc ?
Also am I approaching this PAM authentication right?
Thanks,
Eugene van Zyl
