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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail and User Database (UDB)
Date: 29 Jun 1995 12:07:15 +0200
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<mglaris@pic.net> wrote:
>I have recompiled sendmail (v 8.6.9) under FreeBSD v2.0. The flags
>for activating the user database option were set in conf.h. In my
>sendmail.cf file, i have set the OU option to:
>
>OU /etc/spwd.db
>
>the file /etc/spwd.db was created by the program pwd_mkdb. When I
>run sendmail, i get the following message in my maillog file:
>
>dbopen(/etc/spwd.db): Inappropriate file type of format
...
>Apparently, the sendmail parogram will use a user database for user
>authentication.
Apparently, the sendmail program will not use a user database for user
authentication (and i cannot think of any occasion where it would even
perform user authentication itself). This is from
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README:
+--------------------------------+
| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
+--------------------------------+
The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
imperative that you also specify FEATURE(notsticky) -- otherwise,
e-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected.
To build the internal form of the user databae, use:
makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)