* Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman@dman.ddts.net) [020620 20:43]: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:57:17PM -0700, ben wrote: > | On Thursday 20 June 2002 06:56 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > Is linux a system that requires root access to use PAM? If so, then > | > pam can't be used directly by exim. You can, however, use a different > | > lookup for users (eg look in a passwd file made just for exim, or use > | > LDAP or SQL or something else). > | > > | > I hope PAM can be used on linux ... someone please tell me if root is > | > required. > 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. The answer is yes, exim can use pam with uid==8. I'm using SMTP auth with the debian-packaged exim, running under the default uid and gid, making use of pam authentication (with a separate user list via pam_listfile instead of with regular user accounts, but that's below the abstraction line as far as exim is concerned.) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.anti-dmca.org/
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