My two cents worth: As I understand it, usernames cannot be duplicated on the entire server as they are a function of the sendmail program. However, why can only one instance of that program be running on the server? Why can't I run several different copies of the sendmail program on the same box? I am not a born-again Linux convert, as you may have noticed by now. I come from the dark side (Microsoft stuff). I know how to set up folders, files, partitions and other stuff to do this in a Windows environment; can this not be done with Unix? Also, what I find most troubling as an administrator is, why isn't there a list of all user names already in use on that server I can easily call up, (like with a click on an icon in the GUI?) so I don't have to try setting up the username only to be told by the GUI that that particular user account cannot be configured (also the message why isn't very specific).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cruzio Research Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] E-mail names on RaQ4 Yes, but you could have individual password files for each domain, which would allow each domain to have e-mail accounts (not aliases) unique to a host, not the entire server. That's what we've done with our (heavily customized) BSDi servers that we are currently running. I was wondering if anyone here had done anything of that sort, because I don't want to have to start at ground zero. However, I also don't want to have to rewrite the GUI to interface with everything, otherwise there is very little reason for us to switch, so I may just have to tell our IS department that the way things work is gonna change a bit. Thanks for the replies. Mark Steve Werby wrote: > > "Cruzio Research" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone managed to change a RaQ4 to allow e-mail names that are > > unique only to domains and not > > to the entire RaQ? > > > > I'm familiar with the workaround of creating an alias, but that doesn't > > work for my situation. > > On Linux servers usernames are unique. As you know, you can create email > aliases unique to a host, not the entire server. > > > We are an ISP looking to switch our web servers to the RaQ and we would > > be hosting several different customers on a machine. Customers are not > > going to want to hear that they can't have a specific e-mail address > > under their domain (without a workaround) when our current platform > > allows that. > > Do you mean that they won't be happy that their username (used for login) > has to change because usernames are unique? I think most customers would > tolerate this, but you know your customers better than I do. Even if there > is a way to allow logins to include the domain name as a workaround it would > surely breakly most of the GUI. If you aren't planning on using the GUI and > the users are email only there's probably a solution that can be > implemented, but since you said "web servers" and I get the feeling you > won't be abandoning the GUI I'll take it that's not the case. > > -- > Steve Werby > President, Befriend Internet Services LLC > http://www.befriend.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers -- Mark Hanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
