On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 06:42:04AM +0100, Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:12:12PM -0600, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> > I'm in the process of trying to determine if the alias uid was
> > different when qmail was compiled vs the current alias
> > uid. Other than that, which I don't think is the problem,
> > nothing immediately springs to mind.
>
> This is strange, as AFAICS the lookup ist done by name not uid.
Odd, I'm certain I remember discussion about the pros and cons of
compiling the uids into the binaries on this list earlier.
> auto_usera.c:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> char auto_usera[] = "\
> \141\154\151\141\163\
> ";
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and the log message is triggerd by
> qmail-getpw.c
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> if (!userext()) {
> extension = local;
> dash = "-";
> pw = getpwnam(auto_usera);
> }
>
> if (!pw) _exit(QLX_NOALIAS);
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Maybe your password file is messed up?
That was my first thought. Unfortunately, fixing the obvious
oddities in passwd didn't help matters. I'll go back and stare
at it further, maybe I missed something.
--
Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
