On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 07:03, Neil Marjoram wrote:
> I have a small problem with sendmail.
> I have a number of students working on the configuration of some Fedora
> systems as part of an MSc course we run. One of them has an interesting
> problem I can't fathom out at all. When he sends a mail meesage to a
> local user he has created sendmail returns the error dsn=5.1.1,
> stat=User unknown. (we use command line mail to send the email) When I
> create a user on the same box and send a mail there is no problem. I am
> not sure how the student created the user but I think it was with a
> command like this : useradd -c 'works clerk--Jenny Rawring' -d
> /workspace/home/Jenny/Jenny -s /bin/bash Jenny.
> You can su to the user, login from outside and send a mail from the user
> to root, I can't find anything in the passwd etc. files that looks out
> of place.
>
> Does anyone know anything I may have missed.
Sendmail is going to lowercase the local part of the address
before trying to match users. It isn't quite case insensitive,
it accepts upper/lower in the address and wants to match
lower in the passwd file entry. Adduser should have given
you an 'invalid user name error', though.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
