We worked through it off-list.
The problem was that his /etc/passwd was mode 600.
He changed it to 644, and the issue went away.
The qmail code was quite informative in solving the evidence of the
problem, which was clearly tied to a result code from qmail-getpw. After
looking for things like inconsistencies in his shadow system setup, file
mount issues, embedded control characters in hand-edited PW files, the
qmail IDs' component shells, and so forth, it still had to be related to
an inability to obtain the alias user (which was indeed set to "alias")
information from the PW file. That left perms, the simplest thing to
check....
-M
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Bob Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The ownership is alias.qmail
>
> Perhaps the directory isn't visible to qmail. Check the permissions and
> ownership on /, /var, and /var/qmail as well.
>
> Charles
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