Re: [cobalt-users] Setting up Email

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:54 PM 3/14/00 -0800, you wrote:

> So the limitation is user names? So if somone on the RaQ already has
> sales@... no one else of the 200 virtual domains can have a user named
> sales? That sucks...

No, that's linux <wry grin>.

How can you possibly enforce security if two people can log onto the same 
machine with one user name?  How would the machine know which user was 
logged on?

You're dealing, after all, with a computer here <wry grin, again>.

> So to get around this... I would create a user called sales.xyz (xyz being
> their domain name), and give it an alias of sales? But to FTP and to login
> to pick up their mail, they would have to login with a user name of
> sales.xyz...
>
> It may just be a good practice to always name users... "username.domain" to
> avoid any conflicts?

I presume you've already tried user names of length > 8 characters in all 
possible situations and know this is safe, right?

Have you for example figured out how you can tell whether "jeffrey.domain1 
or jeffrey.domain2 owns a file from looking at the directory, right?

Not a good idea, unfortunately.

We use a number system.  You log in to get your mail as VXG10234, but your 
mail is addressed to "you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx".

Can you deal with it?

I hope so.

Jeff

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