From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 15:24:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA09956 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:24:13 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA09948 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:24:11 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id AAA02524 ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:23:58 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id AAA20622 ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:23:57 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199507272223.AAA20622@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: UserDB To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:23:57 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <1115.806853677@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 27, 95 03:01:17 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#880 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 754 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ``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