Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:35:00 -0500 From: Dan Welch <welchdw@earthlink.net> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nss_ldap, sendmail and ls Message-ID: <20040125173500.GA2198@gandalf.welch.net> In-Reply-To: <200401251309.i0PD9TO3097344@soth.ventu> References: <200401251309.i0PD9TO3097344@soth.ventu>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:09:29PM -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > I've built a mailserver with FreeBSD 5.1, which uses nss_ldap for the > user database, and sendmail-ldap from the port collection. Everything > works fine except forward files. I've arranged sendmail to keep them > all in one directory by user name; however this only works for users > which are in /etc/passwd, not for those that are stored in LDAP. > > Something which might be related: if I do "ls -l" I can see the > usernames, again, only for users which are in /etc/passwd, for those > that are in LDAP I see the uid number instead. Is this normal? > > Any hint is appreciated. > > bye & Thanks av. This amounts to only a hint, but my copy of the port says "Currently this is an experimental port, with support only for the `passwd' and `group' databases." which sounds very much like the problem you describe. You may need to use a more complete ldap system such as openldap which is also in the ports.
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