On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:53 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:57:17PM -0700, ben wrote: [snip] > | root is required for configuration. users get to use it but not to > | manipulate it. i messed around with it a while back but couldn't see a > | use for it on my dialup desktop. it allows you, as root, to determine > | which users get to use what services, so, appropriately configured, it > | shouldn't interfere with user access to exim. > > The question is : > Can exim, running as user mail (uid=8?), perform user > authentication via PAM or must other methods be used? > This is to provide SMTP AUTH service. I know it won't affect other > aspects of exim. >
though i don't have practical experience to back this up, given that, in this case, mail is a user and smtp is a service, then, at least ideally, exim should be able to perform as necessary. if mail, as user, is authorized access via pam, then, it shouldn't affect the smtp auth process. check out www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/<whatever> ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
