[Dovecot] Dot in user name. Was: Re: Apple patch 9

[Giuliano Gavazzi]

On T 6 Jan, 2009, at 16:08 , Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 16:02 +0100, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>> Jan  6 15:38:58 dns dovecot[281]: Fatal: auth(default): BROKEN NSS
>> IMPLEMENTATION: getpwnam() lookup returned different user than was
>> requested (x_y != x.y).
> ..
>> This is not vital, but perhaps it is time to allow control on this
>> behaviour that seems to potentially affect various platforms? Or
>> perhaps should getpwnam return the short user name that matches the
>> passwd field supplied (if it exists)?
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/5858d901b2af
>

that was quick!
Thanks
g