From: Tom Crummey (tom@ee.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 19:56:51 EDT
Hello,
Scenario:
Migrating from NIS to LDAP on Solaris 9 with SUN Directory server 5.2
Using ldapaddent I've inserted mail aliases in the the aliases ou in the
LDAP directory. On systems where the directory service is now LDAP instead
of NIS, large mail aliases cannot be expanded using sendmail. The message
returned is
User unknown.
Using debugging on sendmail shows that a call: getldapaliasbyname is
failing due to insufficient buffer space (errno=79). On looking at the SUN
sendmail patch, it seems that LDAP alias expansion is done using the call
__getldapaliasbyname provided by libsldap.so.1 This call requires its
output buffer to be preallocated and passed in as a parameter.
However, the buffer passed to this call is only MAXNAME+1 bytes which
equates to 257 bytes which explains the size limit on aliases stored in LDAP.
The NIS version has the buffer allocated by the yp_match library call
itself which will accomodate whatever size aliases you need (up to the dbm record
limit of 1024 characters).
>From looking at the source to the changes made to sendmail by SUN, it
seems like a very hurried hack, the consequences of which have not been
documented or thought about.
It must be the case that most people using sendmail and LDAP on SUN expand
aliases in a different way. Could someone enlighten me?
Tom.
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