Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-08-01 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: Andrzej A. Filip: wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: [...] In any case, using UNIX system account names with @ is a mistake, and I will not put in a great deal of effort to make that easy. IMHO it does make sense at big system shared

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-08-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: I can easily agree that @ in names of Unix OS accounts will stay as not _recommended_ for LONG. I disagree it *must* stay this way. I expect that in the not so long term only root and other infrastructure has a UNIX server account. Users exist in a different layer.

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: Andrzej A. Filip: Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? How to do it? Use virtual(8) instead of local(8). Should I expect some problems selecting virtual mailer for deliveries to

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: Andrzej A. Filip: Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? How to do it? Use virtual(8) instead of local(8). Should I expect some problems selecting virtual mailer for deliveries to j...@example.net via transport table? [I

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: [...] In any case, using UNIX system account names with @ is a mistake, and I will not put in a great deal of effort to make that easy. IMHO it does make sense at big system shared by a few+ loosely coupled organizations or in

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: [...] In any case, using UNIX system account names with @ is a mistake, and I will not put in a great deal of effort to make that easy. IMHO it does make sense at big system shared by a few+ loosely coupled organizations or in server group sharing

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-29 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
Viktor Dukhovni postfix-us...@dukhovni.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:04:23AM +0200, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? The local(8) delivery agent does not support these. If you hand these off to some other delivery agent, then

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? How to do it? Use virtual(8) instead of local(8). Wietse My question is inspired (closely related but not identical) by http://serverfault.com/q/709153/163277 | Q: Postfix virtual domain mapping

OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-28 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? How to do it? My question is inspired (closely related but not identical) by http://serverfault.com/q/709153/163277 | Q: Postfix virtual domain mapping user for a user a linux name containing @ -- A. Filip

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-28 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:04:23AM +0200, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? The local(8) delivery agent does not support these. If you hand these off to some other delivery agent, then it is up to that agent. How to do it? Can't be