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Re: [cobalt-developers] User or Alias "admin" for virtual domains in RAQ550
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] User or Alias "admin" for virtual domains in RAQ550
- From: "Paul Aviles" <paul.aviles@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Sep 9 09:10:01 2003
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
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
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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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