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Re: [cobalt-developers] User or Alias "admin" for virtual domains in RAQ550



You can create an admin for that domain like dom1admin (or whatever) and 
create an alias for the email address for admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Should not 
be an issue.

--
Paul Aviles
http://folding.stanford.edu
Team # 33187

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Anders <andersb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:08:40 +0200
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] User or Alias "admin" for virtual domains in 
RAQ550

> Allan McDonald wrote:
> 
> > I have several clients who require the email address of
> > admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I had no problems with doing this in virtusertable on my older FreeBSD
> > machine, but now that I have merged domains across to the Cobalt box, It
> > seems that the user "admin" is God, and can't be used by any other virtual
> > domain.
> > 
> > 3 of these domains already have signage or business cards printed with
> > admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx so they _need_ those addresses.
> > 
> > Is it possible to change the "admin" login to any other name..
> > 
> > Or what do other system administrators do for people who want an admin 
email
> > address ??
> 
> RaQ 550 assigns the "admin@xxxxxxxxxx" alias to the admin user, by default.
> 
> (It does this for "nobody", "root" and "postmaster" as well... By 
> design.) And since it is a ProtectedEmailAlias, it can be only be 
> changed by admins ?
> 
> You are free to continue to hack the virtusertable directly, of 
> course ?    admin@xxxxxxxxxx       admin
> 
> You can add "admin helpers" (admin-like accounts), but I'm not sure that
> you can remove the admin account altogether ? It is rather special...
> 
> --anders
> 
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