On 9/16/2020 3:40 PM, Yves Goergen via Exim-users wrote:
Hello,
The Exim documentation [1] says:
> The PAM module is initialized with the service name “exim”
Can I change this? Is there a config option or something or should I
give up my search and change my PAM configuration? I'd like to share
the service with Dovecot (IMAP, POP3) to simplify the backend and
prefer not to use the name "exim" for Dovecot as it could be
confusing, but rather a generic name like "email".
Afraid not. You'd have to patch the code. But why bother? You can do the
same thing multiple ways. For example, I have Exim and Dovecot on my
server (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS), and both run as the user Debian-exim. Yes,
Dovecot isn't exim, but it's easy to make it work just the same. As for
PAM itself, I'd just do a hard link to the /etc/pam.d/exim file. Call it
dovecot or something maybe. But then you just point your Dovecot pam
system that way. I personally don't use PAM for exim. It wouldn't work
for what I need. But if you are already using PAM to authenticate exim
or other mail related programs against, then I see no reason why this
wouldn't work.
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