Jochen Gensch wrote: > > I decided to switch to system users, since this is a small server here > and though easier to maintain. You can imagine what I ran into, the pam > auth issue. From what I have learned so far, Exim cannot authenticate > against pam, because it runs (per default) as a non root user and these > are not allowed to access pam auth modules. After reading up on this on > the internet no simple solutions (except runnning exim as root) has > showed up, yet. I would like to use the pam_exim module mentioned in the > FAQ, but I can't compile it on my FreeBSD 6.0 system :-(. Are there any > solutions to this at this point of time?
saslauthd is a daemon which is run as root, and allows apps (such as exim) to authenticate using SASL without root privileges. SASL, in turn, can be configured to authenticate using PAM. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch11.html#SECTexpcond (search for "saslauthd") - Marc -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
