sendmail turns _ in login names into a space
Guy Harris
guy at sun.uucp
Mon Nov 11 07:51:43 AEST 1985
> 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
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