Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!Glacier!decwrl!sun!guy From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: sendmail turns _ in login names into a space Message-ID: <2978@sun.uucp> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:51:43 EST Article-I.D.: sun.2978 Posted: Sun Nov 10 16:51:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 08:23:36 EST References: <957@utcs.uucp> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 21 > Description: > We have login names for our uucp neighbours of the form u_host > (e.g. u_utzoo). sendmail thinks underscores should be turned > into spaces before looking up login names in the password file > and consequently never found such login names. > ... > Fix: > This fix makes sendmail leave underscores alone. (Eric, get away > from that airplane glue!) "And 6000 tubes of airplane glue!" -- L. Bruce (6000 may not be the exact number) The 4.2BSD (and, I think, V7 and possibly S3, but definitely not S5) "login" turned *spaces* in the logname into *underscores*, but why the hell "sendmail" should turn them *back* escapes me. No need even to protect that crock with "#ifdef notdef" - it's just plain *wrong*. Guy Harris "Don't want to do it without the fez on" - S. Dan