On 3-Jul-06, at 1:55 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>
>> --------> virtual_user router <--------
>> local_part=jlixfeld.example.ca domain=mail.example.ca
>> checking for local user
>> virtual_user router skipped: jlixfeld.example.ca is not a local user
>> no more routers
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is. It might be that the Exim user
> doesn't
> have enough privilege to do the LDAP NSS stuff. What are the
> permissions
> on /etc/nss_ldap.conf? (or whatever the filename is)
Privileges are fine (too loose, actaully!).
> You could try recompiling Exim with this patch, which might get
> slighly
> more useful error reporting out of check_local_user in debugging mode.
> Given the history of the code, I expect Philip has some war stories to
> tell about bad error reporting from getpwnam(). I don't know how
> widely
> the current POSIX behaviour is followed; if we can rely on it then
> it's
> probably worth improving the error handling here.
Patched and compiled, however -d -bmc doesn't catch it. What debug
flags should I use?
> --- route.c 7 Feb 2006 11:19:00 -0000 1.8
> +++ route.c 3 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0000
> @@ -1104,10 +1104,14 @@
>
> else for (;;)
> {
> + errno = 0;
> if ((lastpw = getpwnam(CS s)) != NULL) break;
> if (++i > finduser_retries) break;
> sleep(1);
> }
> + DEBUG(D_uid)
> + if (lastpw == NULL && errno != 0)
> + debug_printf("getpwnam(%s) failed: %s\n", s, strerror(errno));
>
> if (lastpw != NULL)
> {
>
> Tony.
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