[Pkg-exim4-users] I don't succed to use tls + auth pam for relay

[mathieu ruellan]

Marc Haber said:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:13:39AM +0200, mathieu ruellan wrote:
>> with an example in a blog, i created a /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/42-login
>> it can be read by everybody (for the moment)...
>
> Why do you take a random example from a blog while the examples from
> the packages have example code to accomplish your goal without
> exposing yourself to a security risk?

Because they are not clear for me ... i try several things until it works,
   I hope it will make me understand ;)

And to answer you, y didn't find examples with pam! Do you know an
alternative? (i wish using system user's passwords)

>
>> Another thing (I hope it can help you to guess my problem)
>>
>> When I modify /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples and
>> restart
>> exim4, modifications are not applied in
>> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.
>
> how do you restart exim4?
I do "/etc/init.d/exim4 restart" or "/etc/init.d/exim4 reload"

> Do you receive any error messages?
no errors message on the console! nothing in logs (/var/log/exim4/mainlog
and rejectlog)

is default configuration quiet? is there a verbose mode?

>
>> >> I never saw in docs information about
>> >> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros
>> >
>> > documented in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz line 273ff
>> >
>> Yes, but it's very poor for the moment ... some essential informations
>> are
>> missing!
>
> Please help us making the docs better. Provide a patch.
With pleasure, but before, it's better to understand and make it working ;)!

>
>> For instance, to understand that put the line MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true is
>> enough to enable TLS, you have to read scripts!
>
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, line 104, in the paragraph
> titled "How to enable TLS support for exim as server". I'd hardly call
> the README file a script.
>
>> A newbie (like me) reads the official exim doc, destruct everything and
>> get unreadable configuration files.
>
> A newbie shouldn't be running a mail server on the public internet,
> and should read the documentation that comes with the package.
> README.Debian.gz is _prominently_ mentioned even in the package
> description.
>

Everybody has been a newbie a day ... sorry, I'm at the beginning!*
I'm just checking to be not openrelay ...

>> With just a little more information, he will be able to do the same,
>> just
>> adding a few lines ...
>
> What kind of lines do you wish to have added to the documentation?
>

A day, i will know them ;)


Mathieu

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