RE: [cobalt-developers] E-mail names on RaQ4

["Will Eberle" <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cruzio Research
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:37 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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" <research@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> --
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Mark Hanford
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