Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: robert%shangri-la@gatech.edu (Robert Viduya) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Sendmail "personal name" field on SUN workstations Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <2858@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 6 Nov 89 04:05:00 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 3 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 189, message 6 of 22 Before sendmail looks at the password file to find out the full name of a user, it'll first check the environment variable NAME and uses that if set. This doesn't fix the problem, but it does work around it.