I agree with you that it's a bug in your C library's implementation of
getpwnam(), specifically in its NIS (a.k.a. Yellow Pages) routines (note
the yp_??? function calls).
The idea of those calls is to enable the #public and #shared namespaces if
the users imappublic and imapshared respectively
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004, at 20:27:38, Mark Crispin
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MC The idea of those calls is to enable the
MC #public and #shared namespaces if the users
MC imappublic and imapshared respectively exist.
MC Some UNIX systems don't like 10-character
MC userids, but they shouldn't