[imp] Not displaying full name set in /etc/passwd

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:33:41PM +0200, David Wilson wrote:

> I've been batteling with this but I can't seem to get it right:
> All my users 1000+ have had their full name changed to "From-Admin" in
> /etc/passwd by some silly accounting package, when my users log in to IMP
> and send email their display name appears as "From-Admin"  *bleh*, the only
> way for my users to change their full name is to go to "preferences" in IMP
> and set their full name where it's then stored in MySQL.
> 
> What I thought of for a quick solution is to tell IMP not to read the
> display name from /etc/passwd, if the user hasn't set a full name under
> IMP's "preferences" then IMP must just set the display name to the users
> email address ....i.e
> user1@mydomain.com ?
 
IMP never reads /etc/passwd.  It must be your mail server or some
other service that's adding the "From-Admin" name.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member