60904 – pam_exim - pam module to use with exim

Bug 60904 - pam_exim - pam module to use with exim

Summary: pam_exim - pam module to use with exim

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages

URL:	http://www.e-admin.de/pam_exim/
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Reported:	2004-08-19 08:55 UTC by Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-12-05 05:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-19 08:55:51 UTC

Pam_exim a patched version of the pam_unix module that comes with the Linux-Pam package (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/).

It is designed to authenicate a user/password-pair not only for root, but one special user/group that is in my configuration the user running the EXIM MTA.

For security reasons it checks the calling user/group and checks for the userid of the user that is going to be authenticated being > than a MINUID.


this patch is very very usefull. i dont really know how to patch the pam ebuild in a way that doesnt looks like "ugly hack". the one that could write an ebuild for this module is my personal hero. :)

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Comment 1 Christian Loitsch 2004-09-10 07:07:45 UTC

I know, it is not what you want, but pam_dotfile is another solution, which is already in portage.

Comment 2 Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-05 05:21:09 UTC

closing because using pam_dotfile is a sufficient solution