Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Re: LDAP and sendmail

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Masiar Ighani wrote:

# you´re right. Last week i patched qpopper to get his authentification
# information out of LDAP. It was really trivial.
# But what i didn´t understand (until yesterday) was, how can i tell
# sendmail/delivery agent that a given User "XYZ" is on the local machine
# WITHOUT USING /ETC/PASSWD but LDAP instead.
# Now i know that nss_ldap will do. However, i´ll figure it out in the next
# days. Thanks everybody for helping.

	Please read your mail server documentation.  As I said in my very
first post on this subject, /etc/passwd is not relevant to the mail
system, however sendmail has a flag you can use on a delivery agent that
will kindly check your password routines for you if you ask it to, but
it's completely a convenience function for those two lazy to write proper
local delivery agents (or maybe to prevent running the local delivery
agent if you can guess ahead of time whether the user exists or not, this
seems more likely).

	Either way, I've got E-mail addresses you can deliver to here that
have absolutely no sort of account anywhere.  There is no way to log in as
this user on any machine or service on my network, including my IMAP and
POP servers, but you can deliver mail to them...  It's no different than a
web server that will allow people to log in who don't have accounts on the
actual machine.

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