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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-16 12:43 UTC|newest]
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2003-04-15 21:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2003-04-16 12:43 ` William F Hammond [this message]
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2003-04-16 13:44 ` Kai Großjohann
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2003-04-16 21:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2003-04-19 3:30 ` Pete Cooper Jr.
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2003-04-21 11:22 ` Kai Großjohann
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2003-04-21 13:03 ` Kai Großjohann
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[not found] ` <84r87vpq77.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
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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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