geoff@utcs.uucp (Geoff Collyer) (11/08/85)
Index: usr.lib/sendmail/src/recipient.c 4.2BSD
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. We had dueling
sendmails when one machine's uux (running under a u_host login
name) mailed an error message to another machine's u_host login.
Repeat-By:
Create a u_ucbvax login. Try to send mail to it.
Watch sendmail say "u_ucbvax ... User unknown".
Fix:
This fix makes sendmail leave underscores alone. (Eric, get away
from that airplane glue!)
*** /tmp/,RCSt1022658 Fri Nov 8 04:27:24 1985
--- /tmp/,RCSt2022658 Fri Nov 8 04:27:28 1985
***************
*** 344,350
for (p = name; *p != '\0'; p++)
{
! if (*p == (SpaceSub & 0177) || *p == '_')
*p = ' ';
}
--- 344,354 -----
for (p = name; *p != '\0'; p++)
{
! if (*p == (SpaceSub & 0177)
! #ifdef notdef
! || *p == '_'
! #endif
! )
*p = ' ';
}
--
"Throw out the hardware, let's do it right." - S. Danguy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (11/11/85)
> 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