Re: [exim] request help with nis user lookups

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: montana
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] request help with nis user lookups
On Wed, 31 May 2006, montana@??? wrote:
>
> is there a way i can break down the output of this query into fields
> and populate the needed variables for exim?


You can use ${extract to get the fields out of a passwd line, but you'd be
better off setting up your machine's nsswitch so that the underlying Unix
getpwnam uses NIS and therefore Exim's normal check_local_user stuff
works.

Tony.
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