Viktor Dukhovni: > > On Oct 27, 2020, at 11:42 PM, John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Could someone have an email address of "uid:[email protected]" down > > the line? > > The lookup key is a login name, given the syntax of the passwd(5) > file, no ":" characters can appear in a login name.
However, one goal was to also expose this functionality in the smtps and submission services, where the login syntax is not constrained by UNIX password-file rules. The specific form "uid:[email protected]" won't collide with "uid:[0-9]+", but other forms could. Perhaps we should make the prefix for numerical UIDs configurable. Wietse
