Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-08-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: > I can easily agree that @ in names of Unix OS accounts will stay as > "not _recommended_" for LONG. I disagree it *must* stay this way. I expect that in the not so long term only root and other infrastructure has a UNIX server account. Users exist in a different layer.

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-08-01 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > Andrzej A. Filip: >> wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: >> [...] >> > In any case, using UNIX system account names with @ is a mistake, >> > and I will not put in a great deal of effort to make that easy. >> >> IMHO it does make sense at big s

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: > wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > [...] > > In any case, using UNIX system account names with @ is a mistake, > > and I will not put in a great deal of effort to make that easy. > > IMHO it does make sense at big system shared by a few+ "loosely coupled" > organizat

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: [...] > In any case, using UNIX system account names with @ is a mistake, > and I will not put in a great deal of effort to make that easy. IMHO it does make sense at big system shared by a few+ "loosely coupled" organizations or in server group sharing

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: > wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > > Andrzej A. Filip: > >> Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? > >> How to do it? > > > > Use virtual(8) instead of local(8). > > Should I expect some problems selecting virtual mailer for deliveries to

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-30 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > Andrzej A. Filip: >> Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? >> How to do it? > > Use virtual(8) instead of local(8). Should I expect some problems selecting virtual mailer for deliveries to j...@example.net via transport tab

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Andrzej A. Filip: > Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? > How to do it? Use virtual(8) instead of local(8). Wietse > My question is inspired (closely related but not identical) by > http://serverfault.com/q/709153/163277 > | Q: Postfix virtual domain mappin

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-29 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:04:23AM +0200, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: > >> Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? > > The local(8) delivery agent does not support these. If you hand > these off to some other delivery agent, then it is up to that ag

Re: OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-28 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:04:23AM +0200, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: > Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? The local(8) delivery agent does not support these. If you hand these off to some other delivery agent, then it is up to that agent. > How to do it? Can't be d

OS accounts/users with @

2015-07-28 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
Is it possible to make postfix handle OS usernames with @ in them? How to do it? My question is inspired (closely related but not identical) by http://serverfault.com/q/709153/163277 | Q: Postfix virtual domain mapping user for a user a linux name containing @ -- A. Filip