On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:13:35AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. It is correct that Jenny as a user name was the problem but useradd does not complain if Jenny is used as the user name. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
