Re: Re: LDAP and sendmail

["Masiar Ighani" <MIGHANI@debis.com>]

Ok, but at a certain point the operating system uses it routines to get
information out of /etc/passwd.
Can i take influence of this behaviour by installing nss_ldap and tell the
OS to get its information from ldap?



Greetings,

 Masiar






dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net> on 04.03.99 09:29:33

An:    Masiar Ighani <MIGHANI@debis.com>
Kopie: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
Thema: Re: LDAP and sendmail
                                                                           
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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 don´t 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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