On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jonathan Hunter wrote:
> I am currently in the process of finishing an implementation of a virtual
> hosting system where each user has a unique UID and can run CGI scripts
> under that UID. Rather than create individual entries in /etc/passwd for
> each user, I have just assigned unique UIDs and set permissions accordingly.
> This works great for everything, except for when a user tries to call exim
> to send an email from a CGI script (exim -t). The following error comes up
> on stderr and in the paniclog:
>
> 2000-04-12 16:23:35 Failed to get user name for uid [xxxx]
Checkout the unknown_login option.
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