Re: LDAP and sendmail

[dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Masiar Ighani wrote:

// sendmail gets its information, wether an user is local or not and the
// uid/gid from /etc/passwd
// Can i tell sendmail to get this information from LDAP?
// I donīt know if "nss_ldap" and generally "nsswitch"  is the right thing to
// look for!?

	Sendmail does not get its information from /etc/passwd unless you
tell it to.  Unless you set the w flag, it's up to the delivery program
(not sendmail) to determine whether the user exists or not.  See
sysexits.h (in your normal system include path).

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