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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 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 ?
The problem isn't the in the name of the user that exim runs as, it's the
UID. To be able to authenticate against the information in /etc/shadow
exim must run as root.
Put
exim_user = root
in exim.conf, restart exim, and try again.
> Also am I approaching this PAM authentication right?
For the most part.
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