Bug#283568: exim4: Wrong info in README.SMTP-AUTH

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-11-30 Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek@LIACS.NL> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>>It'd also be nice to mention the format of the passwd file
>>>(username:crypted password)

>>The comments in exim4.conf.template or 30_exim4-config_examples
>>respectively describe the format.

> I didn't know whether "user IDs" were user names or the numbers in the 
> /etc/passwd file.

Hello,
I see, that is misleading. I'll change that.

[...]
> >>And what to edit in 30_exim4-config_examples for SASL and for
> >>non-SASL authentication.

>>Could you be more specific on your problem?

> I assumed it was just an example file and that I had to copy lines from 
> it to somewhere else.

> Something like "uncomment the plain_saslauthd section" would be more 
> clear I think.

I've changed the section to this:
| /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template [3] includes multiple examples for
| server-side smtp-authentication which just need to be uncommented.
| 
| If you want to authenticate against system passwords (e.g. /etc/shadow)
| the easiest way is to use saslauthd in the Debian package sasl2-bin. You
| have to add the exim-user (currently Debian-exim) to the sasl[1]
| group[2], to give exim permission to use the saslauthd service.
            thanks, cu andreas
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