Sendmail - Unknow User.
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Wed Dec 7 14:14:08 UTC 2005
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:03:42PM +0000, Neil Marjoram wrote:
> I have a small problem with sendmail.
> I have a number of students working on the configuration of some Fedora
> systems as part of an MSc course we run. One of them has an interesting
> problem I can't fathom out at all. When he sends a mail meesage to a
> local user he has created sendmail returns the error dsn=5.1.1,
> stat=User unknown. (we use command line mail to send the email) When I
> create a user on the same box and send a mail there is no problem. I am
> not sure how the student created the user but I think it was with a
> command like this : useradd -c 'works clerk--Jenny Rawring' -d
> /workspace/home/Jenny/Jenny -s /bin/bash Jenny.
> You can su to the user, login from outside and send a mail from the user
> to root, I can't find anything in the passwd etc. files that looks out
> of place.
>
> Does anyone know anything I may have missed.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Neil.
>
Well this is probably irrelevant and it may be a typo in your message
but your student did not create a user with command above:
useradd -c 'works clerk--Jenny Rawring' -d /workspace/home/Jenny/Jenny -s
/bin/bash Jenny
In order to do that the directory: /workspace/home/Jenny
would have to already exist, which I doubt.
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Aaron Konstam
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Trinity University
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