2009/3/14 Jurrie Overgoor <[email protected]>: > On 2008-08-28 08:48, Jaco van der Schyff wrote: > > What are my options to auth against /etc/shadow using PAM without giving > > exim too much priviledges? > > > > I currently have two options: chgrp exim /etc/shadow or write an > > external authenticator (which is suid root) that returns a > > true/false which I can evaluate in exim. > > > > Any other ideas? > > I configured this today using pwauth. Pwauth > (http://unixpapa.com/pwauth/) is an external authenticator as you > mention as the second option. It is written with Apache in mind, because > Apache suffers from the same problem: need to run as root to > authenticate to /etc/shadow
<snip> Any chance you could work up a wiki page for that tip? Looks very useful. http://wiki.exim.org Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [email protected] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
