Bug 80060 – sendmail doesn't like all-digits usernames

Bug 80060 - sendmail doesn't like all-digits usernames

Summary:	sendmail doesn't like all-digits usernames

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sendmail (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-12-19 08:01 EST by Bastien Nocera
Modified:	2008-12-11 13:18 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-01-13 05:22:06 EST
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Description Bastien Nocera 2002-12-19 08:01:37 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913

Description of problem:
sendmail -bv 10342 responds with "10342... user unknown". ldapsearch -x
'(uid=10242)'  gives the right entry.
su - 10342 also works. Using "sendmail -bv testuser" I got "testuser...
deliverable: mailer local, user testuser"
Both accounts are only in the same ldap-subtree - not local. It seems that every
account containing only digits doesn't
work. Under RH 7.3 (sendmail.8.11.6-15) - same configuration - I get the the
correct result for 10342

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sendmail -bv 10342

Actual Results:  10342... user unknown". ldapsearch -x '(uid=10242)

Expected Results:  10342... deliverable: mailer local, user 10342

Additional info:

Under RH 8.0 with default sendmail.mc

Comment 1 Juergen Weiss 2002-12-19 08:39:07 EST

I downloaded sendmail.8.12.5 and sendmail.8.12.6 from sendmail.org and built the
binary. Both work with sendmail -bv 4711

Comment 2 Juergen Weiss 2002-12-19 15:35:30 EST

The behaviour not resolving local logins containing all-digits seems specific to
RH 8.0 sendmail.

Comment 3 Juergen Weiss 2003-01-02 11:31:46 EST

Is there any progress towards a solution ?

Comment 4 Florian La Roche 2003-01-06 09:39:35 EST

Seems disabling hesiod is fixing this as a shortterm fix, it should have nothing
todo with RHL7.x versus RHL8 sendmail rpms.

greetings,

Florian La Roche

Comment 5 Juergen Weiss 2003-01-08 05:19:23 EST

Thanks for respondig:

1) Hesiod is not enabled ( I assume thats the default )
2) When installing from sendmail.org ( same tar file as in semdmails SRPM 
   (md5sum)). An all digit-usename is accepted ( sendmail -b 4711 )

Comment 6 Florian La Roche 2003-01-13 05:22:06 EST

Should be fixed in 8.12.7-3 or newer.

greetings,

Florian La Roche

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