RE: [cobalt-users] Linux User Ignorance,

["Michael Aronoff" <ma@xxxxxxxx>]

I find that often ignorance is bliss.  You see I don't tell my users that I
am using an "alias" for them.  I simply tell them that their e-mail address
is joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and their user name for pop3 is td-joe (td is
initials for their company name).  Only once have I had some one ask why the
pop username is not the same as their address but I simply explain that it
is our policy for security purposes that the user name not match the mail so
someone cant try to hack into their box as easily.  Works every time.

People don't really care why you do stuff as long as you assure them that it
is the best for their situation they are happy.

Another 2 cents worth from me...

Michael Aronoff - CIIC
ma@xxxxxxxx <mailto:ma@xxxxxxxx>
Calabasas, CA
818-591-7825


-----Original Message-----
From: Rik Thomas [mailto:rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 1:46 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Linux User Ignorance,



No there is no other way short of buying each of them their own Cobalt.
This is not a shortcoming of Cobalt in anyway, it is the operating system.
Any virtualhosting provider faces this issue and must explain this to our
clients as well, in fact we were just doing that this morning.

Do what we do and allow your webhosting customers set their email accounts
up?

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Sunset Country dot Com wrote:

> If anyone has a simple solution for me that would be easy for a beginner,
> and help with the problem, please let me know,
>
> I phoned Cobalt Tech, asking them why i could not make actual users like
> joe@xxxxxxxxxxx and joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx  They said it was because there was
> only one user data base that the system uses for authentication.
>
> Their solution was to create aliases, hundred and hundreds of aliases.
Oh,
> like I have time to do that.
>
> Is there a way to have the user authentication database, seperating the
> authentication, email, and web services by domain?
>
> If anyone can help, please do!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Fazekas
> Sunset Country Internet
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