Hi, <br><br>confirm in your exim4.conf / configure you have the following directives:<br><br><pre>exim_group = Debian-exim<br>exim_user = Debian-exim</pre><br>Best regards,<br>
<br>Jonahan GF<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nikolaus Rath</b> <<a href="mailto:Nikolaus@rath.org">Nikolaus@rath.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I have added Debian-exim to the sasl group:<br><br>[0] nelarikon:/etc/exim4/conf.d# groups Debian-exim<br>Debian-exim : Debian-exim sasl<br><br>The permissions for /var/run/saslauthd seem also correct:<br><br>
[0] nelarikon:/etc/exim4/conf.d# dir /var/run/saslauthd/<br>total 12K<br>drwx--x--- 2 root sasl 4.0K Apr 3 09:53 .<br>drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K Apr 3 09:19 ..<br>srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 3 09:53 mux<br>-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 3 09:53
mux.accept<br>-rw------- 1 root root 6 Apr 3 09:53 saslauthd.pid<br><br>However, exim still produces this error:<br><br>[0] nelarikon:~# exim4 -d+auth -bh <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a><br>Exim version 4.50
uid=0 gid=0 pid=22336 D=fbb95cfd<br>[...]<br>AUTH PLAIN [snip]<br>SSMTP<< AUTH PLAIN [snip]<br>host in smtp_accept_max_nonmail_hosts? yes (matched "*")<br>Running saslauthd authentication for user ""
<br>saslauthd userid='' servicename='' realm=''<br>Cannot connect to saslauthd daemon (at '/var/run/saslauthd/mux'): Permission denied<br>saslauthd: query failed (cannot connect to saslauthd daemon at /var/run/saslauthd/mux: Permission denied)
<br>plain_saslauthd_server authenticator:<br> $1 = \0user\0pass<br>expansion failed: cannot connect to saslauthd daemon at /var/run/saslauthd/mux: Permission denied<br>SMTP>> 435 Unable to authenticate at present<br>
<br><br>When I change the permissions to "chmod 711 /var/run/saslauthd",<br>everything works fine. So it seems that exim is not really running as<br>user Debian-exim. Is there any way I can check this? (Yes, I restarted
<br>after adding Debian-exim to the sasl group).<br><br>Or am I missing something very obvious?<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><br> --Nikolaus<br>--<br>"de.alt.comp.kde Dumm und trotzdem UNIX verwenden? KDE ist die Loesung."
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