From: mouss (moussnetoyen.net)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2008 - 16:45:56 CST

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Xn Nooby a écrit :
> Hi Sahil,
>
> I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I
> am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it.

you forgot to tell us which OS you run. let's assume your "sudo ..." as
a hint ;-p

- save the following as doit.sh

#!/bin/sh
IFS=:
cat /etc/passwd | while read user _x uid gid gecos home shell; do
    user=`echo $user | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
    grep -q "^${user}:" /etc/passwd
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "adduser --disabled-password --uid $uid --gid $gid --gecos $gecos
--home $home --shell $shell $user";
    fi
done

- run it: sh doit.sh > lowerpass.sh

- edit lowerpass.sh and remove all lines but the ones that create the
users you want to create.

> Below
> is my main.cf and aliases file. Also, should I post my replies to
> emails at the top or the bottom? (a few years ago some people got
> really mad at me, but now I can't remember which was correct)
>

put your replies at the bottom. if you don't know why, search for "top
posting".

> I noticed the main.cf referred to /etc/aliases while I had edited
> /etc/postfix/aliases, so I also put my JIM123 entry in to /etc/aliases
> and ran "sudo newaliases", but still isn't working.

what is not working? As you have already been told, postfix "local" will
lowercase the address, so alias_maps don't help.

> Should I be using
> /etc/aliases instead of /etc/postfix/aliases? A few hours ago I got
> "The Book of Postfix" from No Starch Press, and they said
> /etc/postfix/aliases (but I suspect that is wrong).

This is system dependent. for postfix, the only thing that really
matters is that the path be the one specified in alias_maps and
alias_database.

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