Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:23:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: UserDB Message-ID: <199507272223.AAA20622@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <1115.806853677@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 27, 95 03:01:17 pm
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> ``BSD 4.4 UNIX includes UDB, a user database which holds a variety of infor-
> mation about each user on the system, including an entry for each user
> which specifies where that user's mail is to be delivered''
>
> I can't find anything of the sort on either the Lite CDROM or in
> FreeBSD. Is this something that isn't in Lite, only in the encumbered
> version?
It is a feature only used by sendmail for the moment (for rewriting usernames
into First.Last locally mostly). It was meant to have a broader goal (like whois nad
finger) but it is AFAIK unused. Look into op.ms/ps in sendmail's doc directory.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995
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