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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:06:27 -0400
From:      Marie-Josee Blais <mjblais@miranda.com>
To:        Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail 8.9.3 and FreeBSD 2.2.7 and 2.2.8
Message-ID:  <199907291905.PAA24359@norton.miranda.com>
In-Reply-To: <l03130302b3c63c729014@[140.228.15.35]>
References:  <199907291522.LAA19102@norton.miranda.com>

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Sorry for my ignorance. But what do I need to do to recompile libc. Do I
have to recompile anything else or is this a dynamic library?

At 13:15 1999-07-29 -0400, Robert Beer wrote:
>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] =3D _PW_KEYBYNAME;
>!       len =3D strlen(name);
>!       if (len > UT_NAMESIZE)
>!               return(NULL);
>        bcopy(name, bf + 1, len);
>        key.data =3D (u_char *)bf;
>        key.size =3D len + 1;
>--- 137,143 ----
>                return((struct passwd *)NULL);
>
>        bf[0] =3D _PW_KEYBYNAME;
>!       len =3D MIN(strlen(name), MAXLOGNAME - 1);
>        bcopy(name, bf + 1, len);
>        key.data =3D (u_char *)bf;
>        key.size =3D len + 1;
>
>---
>Bob Beer <r-beer@onu.edu>
>Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH  45810
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