> From: Jaco van der Schyff > 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.
> From: Stephen Gran > saslauthd. A way without one more daemon: if you have POP3 server on that machine (I use popa3d) then pam_pop3. My /etc/pam.d/exim (FreeBSD) contains two lines: auth required /usr/local/lib/pam_pop3.so hostname=localhost info pwprompt=Password: timeout=5 account required pam_permit.so -- ## 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/
