On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jaco van der Schyff wrote: > From: Jaco van der Schyff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:48:24 +0200 > Subject: [exim] Options for authenticating against /etc/shadow (PAM) without > making exim suid root > > 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
Chapter 11 of the exim manual suggests the possibility of using: http://www.e-admin.de/pam_exim/ > or write an external authenticator (which is suid root) that > returns a true/false which I can evaluate in exim. > > Any other ideas? As already suggested, saslauthd. Also documented in Chapter 11 of the exim manual. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 1225 386101 -- ## 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/
