Bug 80060 - sendmail doesn't like all-digits usernames
Summary: sendmail doesn't like all-digits usernames
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-19 13:01 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2008-12-11 18:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-01-13 10:22:06 UTC

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Description Bastien Nocera 2002-12-19 13:01:37 UTC 
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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 13:39:07 UTC 
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 20:35:30 UTC 
The behaviour not resolving local logins containing all-digits seems specific to
RH 8.0 sendmail.
Comment 3 Juergen Weiss 2003-01-02 16:31:46 UTC 
Is there any progress towards a solution ?
Comment 4 Florian La Roche 2003-01-06 14:39:35 UTC 
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 10:19:23 UTC 
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 10:22:06 UTC 
Should be fixed in 8.12.7-3 or newer.

greetings,

Florian La Roche
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