On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> | su-2.01# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw lindgren-pat | tr '\000' :
> | lindgren:1021:1021:/home/lindgren:::
> |
> | Does this look right?
>
> No!
>
> | What are the last two fields in the printed results
> | ("-" and "joe" in your example above)?
>
> They are the dash and extension. Together, they are what qmail-local
> adds after ".qmail" to find out what .qmail file to use, thus ending
> with .qmail-joe. It's divided up into dash and extension so the
> latter can be put into $EXT for use by any commands run from the
> .qmail file.
>
> In your example, the expected output would be
>
> lindgren:1021:1021:/home/lindgren:-:pat:
>
> whereas /var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw lindgren | tr '\000' :
> ought to print what you did get.
>
> So this is your problem, right there. Now, do you run qmail's
> standard qmail-getpw or not?
Yes, we haven't changed anything with the default qmail configuration, and
we experienced a clean install. As I said, this behavior is only present
with this one domain, and no others, for no apparent reason.
> If you do, I must conclude that
> getpwnam() behaves rather strangely on your system. (Or that there is
> another user actually named lindgren-pat in the passwd database.)
Is there any state information stored by qmail in terms of usernames and
domains? That is, at one time there was a .qmail-default in that
directory, but I've since removed it, but the functionality hasn't gone
away.
Thanks for your help.
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