KWhat
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Joined: 04 Sep 2005
Posts: 660
Location: Los Angeles
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 Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject: ssmtp hates apache [SOLVED] |
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So I have always used ssmtp with php and apache because its simple and it worked. Recently I have run into a very cute problem. SSMTP is complaining that "Could not find password entry for UID 81". Well uid 81 is apache right, and of course it doesnt have a password or a login shell for obvious reasons. (apache:x:81:81:added by portage for apache:/var/www:/bin/false)
So I dug through some code found the following in ssmtp.c thats been there for a very long time but this use to work.
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int ssmtp(char *argv[])
{
char buf[(BUF_SZ + 1)], *p, *q;
#ifdef MD5AUTH
char challenge[(BUF_SZ + 1)];
#endif
struct passwd *pw;
int i, sock;
uid_t uid;
uid = getuid();
if((pw = getpwuid(uid)) == (struct passwd *)NULL) {
die("Could not find password entry for UID %d", uid);
}
get_arpadate(arpadate);
if(read_config() == False) {
log_event(LOG_INFO, "%s/ssmtp.conf not found", SSMTPCONFDIR);
}
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So my question is what happend that is causeing getpwuid(getuid()) == (struct passwd *)NULL for apache now? Is anyone else having this issue? I guess maybe getpwuid could be returning an issue and ssmtp forgot to check what it was? Ideas would be helpful. Thanks.
Last edited by KWhat on Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:59 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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