Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Do you want me to create pgk for...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

InterVision wrote:

> >>Does it add just a pop account, or set up a complete user?
> It's add a complete user, but you can guve him "0" quote.
> and that way- he can't use ftp

Nor can he get email.

> >>Sounds dangerous to me.  I'd never let a user add his own account.
> 
> Why? You have full control, you  decide, how many users you want to allow to
> be created,
> And you decide this users settings: shell/quote/homedir/site etc....

Because you don't decide his username.  He can call himself Bill Gates,
he can call himself president Clinton, and even more important, he can
call himself "postmaster@domain" unless you've remembered to already set
that up.  Or "domain-administrator" or "webmaster" or anything else he
wants.  I don't allow anyone to set up their own usernames on my boxes;
remember they're box-wide.  If someone's trying a scam, I want to know
about it.

> Also, the script can be rewrites a little, and accounts will have to be
> vaildated by the admin (it will be more simple... because now its run's like
> "helf-hourly" crin job, you delete the cron job, and run the script by
> yourself.)

Better, but as I say, I never allow users to define their own usernames;
once they take a name it's box wide and no one else can have it.  I
don't like that.

Jeff
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