Name
NISPLUS
Synopsis
If you intend to have sendmail support nisplus maps, you need to define NISPLUS in your Build m4 file (the use of nisplus aliases and other maps is determined by the /etc/nsswitch.conf file):
APPENDDEF(`confMAPDEF', `-DNISPLUS')
If NISPLUS is defined, the AliasFile
option can be
used to override the setting of the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file:
O AliasFile=nisplus:mail.aliases ←V8.7 and above
Here, nisplus
aliases will be used even if the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file excludes them.
See Section 24.9 for details about the
AliasFile
option. Note that NISPLUS is new
beginning with V8.7 and not supported under earlier versions of
sendmail.
With NISPLUS defined, support is also included to declare and use
nisplus-type maps (Section 23.2.2)
with the K
configuration command.
If you are running a precompiled sendmail
binary, you can use the -d0.1
debugging
command-line switch (-d0.1) to determine if
NISPLUS support is included (if it appears in the list, support is
included).
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