Mailing List Archive: case sensitive patch

case sensitive patch

Mar 7, 1997, 1:26 PM

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hello, is there a case sensitive patch for qmail? I am still trying to find a
way to get mail delivered to a username with an uppercase character in it. I
have found one way, but it is a security risk. I can change the perms on
/home/User/Mailbox and then have a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-User entry with:
/home/User/Mailbox in it. But it only works if the qmail group can write to
the user's mailbox and I don't like that. Earlier on this list someone said
that they had to modify the code to get it to work. What were these
modifications and is there a patch?

Chris

Re: case sensitive patch [ In reply to ]

andi at vipe

Mar 7, 1997, 1:36 PM

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Hi,

Try grep "'a'" *.c | less
in the qmail source directory. This might give you a starting point. Looks
like it to me.

Andi

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Re: case sensitive patch [ In reply to ]

jailbird at alcatraz

Mar 7, 1997, 3:35 PM

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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Chris Black wrote:

> hello, is there a case sensitive patch for qmail? I am still trying to find a
> way to get mail delivered to a username with an uppercase character in it. I
> have found one way, but it is a security risk. I can change the perms on
> /home/User/Mailbox and then have a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-User entry with:
> /home/User/Mailbox in it. But it only works if the qmail group can write to
> the user's mailbox and I don't like that. Earlier on this list someone said
> that they had to modify the code to get it to work. What were these
> modifications and is there a patch?

Here's what I have my adduser run when I create a new user... you
could use this process to fix that:

cd /var/qmail/users
grep '*' /etc/shadow | grep -v alias | cut -f 1 -d ':' > exclude
qmail-pw2u -u < /etc/passwd > assign
qmail-newu

The -u tells qmail-pw2u to include users with caps... you'll have
to change the 2nd line of that if you don't use shadow...

-Dustin Marquess