Re: [cobalt-users] Setting up Email

["Chris Bledsoe" <cbledsoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The company I was formerly with found a way around this using a numeric
prefix 001-username (etc) and /etc/virtusertable to solve this problem. Not
sure exactly how it worked but it might be the light at the beginning of the
tunnel on a way to do this.

Thanks,
Chris Bledsoe
cbledsoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Titan Networks LLC
http://www.titannetworks.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Setting up Email


> 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
>
> --
> Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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