On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Dan Lists: >> Nov 30 10:39:59 server postfix/local[50947]: warning: error looking up >> passwd info for user: Invalid argument > > The getpwnam_r() SYSTEM LIBRARY ROUTINE reports an error, > with errno set to EINVAL (Invalid argument). > > Find out why the SYSTEM LIBRARY ROUTINE reports this error. >
If the user name is longer that 16 chars and the user does not exist, getpwnam_r() returns EINVAL. If the user exists, it works fine regardless of the length. I saw a report of this same behavior with dovecot. There is a patch to dovecot to fix it. Does postfix need to treat the EINVAL as if the user does not exist? Is there a way to change the behavior of getpwnam*? Dan
