Update on this, but still no answers. I did receive may suggestions that it could be nscd that was causing this, That daemon is not used. I ended up rebooting the server to clear the problem and that did take care of it, Then I proceeded to attempt to reproduce the problem on an other server, without success, it behaved just as I would expect it to, when the username was changed the old name was rejected. So I added a user on the original system and sent it 30 or so messages and read them then went and changed the name of the account and the old name was then refused as expected. So it would seem that at least for now this problem is not reproducible.
Thanks for all of your suggestions,
Kevin
At 06:37 PM 2/15/2004, Tim Villa wrote:
It's possible your users' information is being cached by the name services cache daemon - try an "nscd -i passwd" (-i = invalidate, ie clear the cached passwd table information) and see if that makes a difference.
Tim
At 09:54 AM 14/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:I need some insight in understanding this issue.
Two days ago I changed all of the accounts on my Linux server to remove a Prefix that was left over from when the clients account were on a public server. That switch went quite well, very few issues, except for one very major one. Some people are still able to connect to the server using the old user name and password. mind you there is no entry for the old user name in either the password or shadow files. When a user connects using the old user name they see that there is no email in the mailbox. I have walked this through using telnet to port 110 so this is not a client issue... I assume that a reboot of the box will take care of this but This is a real issue. The LINUX Distro is Redhat 9.0
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