RE: [cobalt-users] POP3/IMAP Mailboxes

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:51 PM 1/16/00  Bill Gunning wrote:

> >>hihum:x:122:100:hihum:/home/sites/site1/users/hihum:/bin/bash
> >Sure. Change the line from the above to:
> >hihum:x:122:100:hihum:/home/sites/site1/web:/bin/bash

Note on above:  I do NOT use /bin/bash as my shell, because I do NOT allow 
telnet.  Instead I use /bin/badsh.

> NOTE: If someone deletes the user hihum then your /home/sites/site1/
> directory will disappear, and if this directory was pointing
> to hihum:x:122:100:hihum:/home/sites:/bin/bash then you would
> lose your entire /home/sites directory, if someone removes or
> deletes the user from the GUI...

Yes, and just who is going to do the deletion?  If no one is an admin but 
you, then you're the culprit, right <smile>?  A bit of caution is always a 
good idea.  And backups, too?  I once deleted a (huge at the time) 10 
megabyte hard disk by accident.  I never did that one again <smile>.

This, btw, is the model that hosting companies have been using since the 
beginning (I've been in the hosting business since '94).  You create a user 
and his home directory is the website.  You can give the user a code number 
like I do, or call him something like wmsite1 (for webmaster site1), or 
anything else you want.

Jeff
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