On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Brad Smith wrote: > On 07/02/14 2:15 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: ... > > Oof. If YP is enabled but an error occurs when trying to do the > > lookup (yp_match() returns an error other than YPERR_KEY) then we > > should set errno even when the later passwd file lookup return no > > match. So my patch is wrong as it would zero errno in that case, > > giving an authoritative "no such user" instead of "error during > > lookup". That's bad, as for things like sendmail it would mean > > temporary YP failures would result in permanent failure responses. > > This will tkae more thought. > > Have you been able to look into this further?
Nope. Would need to get YP set up to test anyway...
