On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:43:41AM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | Hi! | | > Run exim from a shell with '-d9' and then try again. | | I have tryed and I get (nothing helpful): | | Running PAM authentication for user "[erased]" | PAM error: Authentication failure | plain authenticator: | $1 = | $2 = [erased] | $3 = [erased]
I see two problems.
1) If you used the authenticator Mark supplied, then the data the
client sent is wrong. The client sent 3 strings -- the empty
string, then the username, then the password. The
authenticator Mark supplied expects the username first and the
password second.
2) I'm not sure if this is a problem on linux, but this is from
exim's spec :
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In some operating systems, PAM authentication can be done only from a
process running as root. Since Exim is running as the Exim user when
receiving messages, this means that PAM cannot be used directly in those
systems.
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Is linux a system that requires root access to use PAM? If so, then
pam can't be used directly by exim. You can, however, use a different
lookup for users (eg look in a passwd file made just for exim, or use
LDAP or SQL or something else).
I hope PAM can be used on linux ... someone please tell me if root is
required.
-D
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