From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 25 16:56:31 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767F8EBF0FA for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:56:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x236.google.com (mail-oi0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04BFA86632 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:56:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x236.google.com with SMTP id a184so5673007oif.7 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:56:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=p4zVHSEktlTZeKayXd3vwFsnAXUFcd1sEL0Qg2PPjGY=; b=k3OiKZ2S9jGK67q2aIJjkUNMKq81E2oAQaWs0HdBO0icPOMDuTIuRlQOwoInjKxeYK BV4VP1+AdRXYJlVj9y1aRKa9A+hmlejomIDlMSFJyfV2MPCOVoLDU6/kbic8CoTqUeZi Fi7A/EcHf3sl+dpVoCMq3rY6XhS4C7EozqV+AGVhxNQ3KjTP2AQswY4tjqPCiS5c/oLl WuXYddffJJ8dVF318BaO9st17TWa4TPbmM+3+6Z8zEd+WYRtxsBo0bipA0syDeLrKeAX lmJxixzGNjOMSZgIYquaObEHs51ev7EUivlfH3ZcBnU69PBl0ayGC1tmq/vXF+m84nq+ oagA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=p4zVHSEktlTZeKayXd3vwFsnAXUFcd1sEL0Qg2PPjGY=; b=i3aWinUjY+usi44PrL9mLrwCK2a6Lh2aNr9c2EhHsVeFMt0UkvT95BnKSAB+sxO3/j GxBbSkzzxaWZeyNA0GKnbX8ae1UIdUoYnzgig+YmtDMzcKgyYXPHGaAscKY3iMfJXdzR zlwDl0D+BqM73nYPur2mrTSiVCdFSb4sFfSog/lCKA/lw3xcNnB5c8FVdYUEtA22C/GQ XPFL0FkskpXLJo+cKIhlhC12iDGkJ0BQ9lxcxR+hhsIPL+xKaJ0kUq/dytRIFINVqLoc ZwL/1Cixh+5pqT7No1SrF/+nqBoS5lMDXCPiz8g0XnyZPbmUVdudmWs4Km/RN8tx9juD Jb2g== X-Gm-Message-State: AKwxytfFQh2yaddsspzRv9YN8SWoqVFSTMHIMAPpFZChUmTnaOxvKtWX zX1N24i8DBb0TGxELaM6AH+8aAJTdFS2peKEPGbCSsaK X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x224UgQYhJG6RBDJIe6NAL47V/TdZujoXel0+QX4rOML77YmJYNpR9sJwzxFH1fEvIKvJTzqlpX8akAtAFo01H+Q= X-Received: by 10.202.84.77 with SMTP id i74mr11322606oib.79.1516899390039; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:56:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.35.12 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:55:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:55:49 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Exim authentication under FreeBSD To: Frank Leonhardt Cc: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:56:31 -0000 On 25 January 2018 at 13:57, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > How do people do outgoing SMTP user-account authentication using Exim? > > I'm talking about traditional user accounts (/etc/passwd) here, not > glorious LDAP or SQL database virtual users. If you've not come across this > little problem-ette, Exim does not ever run as root and therefore can't > check /etc/master.passwd like sendmail/saslauthd can. > > I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so if there's an existing > daemon/authenticator I haven't found, I'd appreciate a pointer. Or can > saslauthd work with Exim? > > This isn't such an issue on Linux, which makes me wonder about Linux. > > Thanks, Frank. > Hi Frank, I use FreeBSD too (Linux is a little confusing since I was born and brought up on FreeBSD). Here is what we've been doing for ages: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/mail/exim/auth-dovecot -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."