From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 10: 9:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06785155DD for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19312; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:09:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199907291522.LAA19102@norton.miranda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:15:04 -0400 To: Marie-Josee Blais , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" From: Robert Beer Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9.3 and FreeBSD 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:23 AM -0400 7/29/1999, Marie-Josee Blais wrote: >Hello I am currently running a FreeBSD 2.2.7 on one machine and 2.2.8 on >the other. >I installed Sendmail 8.9.3 on both. > >I noticed something peculiar on the one running 2.2.8. It seems to accept >messages for unknown users. Actually, the first 8 characters correspond to >a user but not the rest. The system running 2.2.7 works fine though. If I >try sending a message with the same kind of invalid address it rejects it. >Also, on 2.2.8, it actually creates a mailbox with the unknown user but >with the user id that has the same first 8 characters. Is this a known >issue. I've looked for messages but haven't found anything. Both system use >the same configuration for sendmail This is a problem. Here is my solution: *** /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c Fri Apr 30 16:18:02 1999 --- /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c.orig Fri Apr 30 15:26:38 1999 *************** *** 137,145 **** return((struct passwd *)NULL); bf[0] = _PW_KEYBYNAME; ! len = strlen(name); ! if (len > UT_NAMESIZE) ! return(NULL); bcopy(name, bf + 1, len); key.data = (u_char *)bf; key.size = len + 1; --- 137,143 ---- return((struct passwd *)NULL); bf[0] = _PW_KEYBYNAME; ! len = MIN(strlen(name), MAXLOGNAME - 1); bcopy(name, bf + 1, len); key.data = (u_char *)bf; key.size = len + 1; --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message