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From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
Subject: Re: Resolving user names on local system
Date: 16 Apr 2003 08:43:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i78yuapq8x.fsf@hilbert.math.albany.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33ckjv3ak.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Glenn Morris <gmorris+news@ast.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Something like this?
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=wziog9667l3.fsf%40mail.dotcom.fr
> 
> Yes, something like that, because...
> 
> > That use niscat/ypcat rather than /etc/passwd.

Shouldn't /etc/passwd be checked first?  But then if smtpmail-send-it
is wired, it's not quite clear what should be done for a recipient
found in /etc/passwd.

> ... not too many people use NIS these days, I think.

Perhaps look for the passwd database in LDAP instead.

                                    -- Bill


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-16 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <v6bof37swwd.fsf@ccc8.WPI.EDU>
2003-04-15 21:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]   ` <uu3ckjig94.fsf@xpc21.ast.cam.ac.uk>
     [not found]     ` <m33ckjv3ak.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2003-04-16 12:43       ` William F Hammond [this message]
     [not found]       ` <v6bsmsjktte.fsf@ccc3.WPI.EDU>
     [not found]         ` <874r4yk70e.fsf@jautero.no-ip.org>
2003-04-16 13:44           ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]             ` <871y02k078.fsf@jautero.no-ip.org>
2003-04-16 21:40               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]                 ` <v6b8yua6miz.fsf@ccc10.WPI.EDU>
2003-04-19  3:30                   ` Pete Cooper Jr.
     [not found]                     ` <843ckddxct.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]                       ` <v6bwuhor329.fsf@ccc3.WPI.EDU>
2003-04-21 11:22                         ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]                           ` <84ptngf61x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]                             ` <v6bsmsc3w8w.fsf@ccc7.WPI.EDU>
2003-04-21 13:03                               ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]                                 ` <v6bwuhnhgvs.fsf@ccc9.WPI.EDU>
     [not found]                                   ` <84r87vpq77.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]                                     ` <v6b1xzvk284.fsf@ccc9.WPI.EDU>
2003-04-22 12:15                                       ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]                                         ` <v6bbryyog5c.fsf@ccc4.WPI.EDU>
2003-04-22 12:56                                           ` Jesper Harder
2003-04-27  2:13                                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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