Hi Folks,
I am currently trying to add redundancy to our email setup, and struggling a bit with authentication. Essentially we have some accounts on a WHM server that store passwords in the passwd/shadow format. I have put together a script that collects the email addresses and passwords and then puts them in the format:

[email protected]:$1$SgeC%ghWgjwRfksWFAKefgnl432GI74::

(for reference I have made up most of the characters in the password string so it is not a valid password)

I have then copied this to a Centos 6 server as /etc/exim/passwd. The server is running a fairly standard copy of Exim, but I don't seem to be able to get password authentication to work.

I have dug up several guides, but they all seem to talk about using md5 passwords or PAM into the system accounts. None of these accounts are or should be in the normal /etc/passwd.

Can anyone more knowledgable point me in the direction of an authenticator that will be able to authenticate against a file in that format? Alternatively I can alter the format of the file, but the username and password come from the first server as they are and I can't unencode them to change them to a different style.

Thanks,
Colin.

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