[tpop3d-discuss] Another MySQL question

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:45:23PM +0200, Allan Joergensen wrote:
> On 07-Sep-2003, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> 
> > > Sep  6 22:40:53 hades tpop3d[24504]: auth_mysql_new_user_pass: getpwuid(5029): Success
> > Does a user with UID 5029 exist in /etc/passwd?
> 
> No it doesn't (this is by design) - I admit I didn't look carefully for
> this in the docs since it's not a problem with any of the other
> software running in this setup (Postfix, Courier, Proftpd).

OK. We grab the UID of the user because we might want to
use their home directory later in a substitution string.
Since creating a passwd entry isn't much work, I don't
think this is worth changing.


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