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Re: LDAP and sendmail

To: Masiar Ighani <MIGHANI@debis.com>
Subject: Re: LDAP and sendmail
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 06:43:42 -0500
Cc: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <4125672A.002DE26A.00@mail1.ac2.dsh.de>; from Masiar Ighani on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:27:34AM +0100
References: <4125672A.002DE26A.00@mail1.ac2.dsh.de>

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:27:34AM +0100, Masiar Ighani wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Does anybody have a solution for this:
>
> 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 get's it's user/group information using the builtin C library
calls which means that, yes, nss_ldap will work.

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References:
- LDAP and sendmail
  - From: "Masiar Ighani" <MIGHANI@debis.com>

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