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

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:44:55AM +0200, mathieu ruellan wrote:
> 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)

As mentioned in this thread and in the README file, the recommended
way of using system user's passwords is to use saslauthd.
/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples has examples showing
how to do that.


> >> 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?

It is quiet until an error is detected. 

Please grep split /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

> is there a verbose mode?

as man update-exim4.conf clearly shows, yes.

Greetings
Marc

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