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[John Edwards]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:36:55PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Wed 11 Jun Jason Clifford wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Doug Winter wrote:
>> 
>>> First, all the major MTAs support SMTP AUTH.  Unfortunately, Linux
>>> doesn't - well, not with PAM anyway.  Because the PAM API is implemented
>>> as a shared object, it runs as the owner of the calling process, who
>>> generally can't access the shadow password file.  
>> 
>> You are wrong. Access to the shadow password database does require an 
>> extra consideration however that is very easy to fix.
>> 
>> I've been using PAM to authenticate SMTP AUTH for over three years.
> 
> Great - absolutely, this is certainly a better solution.  I'd be
> interested in how you do the authentication against the shadow database.

One way is to use a seperate authenication daemon such as CVM or Pwcheck.

Mailfront and CVM can be used to build a SMTP-AUTH front end for qmail:
    http://www.untroubled.org/

You can add sslwrap for some TLS support.


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