Re: [cobalt-users] i should know this one ....

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I created a new user in my main site and gave that user site admin
> privileges. This user was placed by the machine in the
> site-adm:x:111:
> line.

"main site"? Uh oh! That doesn't sound right.

> I added the user to the end of sites 5 and 6. I did the cp group group-
> command as well.

No, wait up, Carrie. The user you're appointing site administrator 
should be appointed through the GUI -- create the user in that site 
and make the designation by clicking the box that makes him/her site 
administrator. That's the way it works on Raq3 -- I'd have to guess 
there's something similar on Raq4. But the main thing is that site 
admins should be created through the GUI because that writes to the 
appropriate files for you.

Let me explain the "bug" we're talking about. The server 
administrator (Carrie) must create a new site -- right? I mean 
someone just can't go to your server and create a new site. So you do 
that and when you do, Raq makes YOU the administrator of the site.

So then you go to create a user for that site and name that person 
site administrator; the Raq dutifully adds that person to the site 
administrator's list in etc/group. Works perfectly! Only one problem: 
when it adds the new site administrator, it does NOT remove YOU from 
that site administrator list. As a result, you and the user you 
designate as site admin end up both being site admins. And, after 32 
sites, you end up having problems so this is why you need to remove 
yourself as site admin from as many sites as you can.

Sooo...after creating the new site administrator through GUI, you 
THEN go and erase the "admin" (i.e. YOU) from each line where it's 
appropriate. Right? You're adding the new site administrator through 
the gui which works perfectly and taking away the server admin 
through Telnet because the gui doesn't do that at all. :-)

> Tried FTP'ing in... I could move up as far as /home/sites/home, but no
> further. Also can't change directories to site5 or 6.

Yeah, well, but now you have to ftp in AS THAT USER with the 
directory /web and that will take you to the specific web site 
directory. Don't go in as admin if you've made a user a site 
administrator -- go into that site as that user.

configs for your ftp client:

hostname: your server's domain name
username: the user who is now administrator of the site -- their username
password: the password for that person
directory: /web

It's supposed to take you right to the site's web directory.

> I notice that the only users in my 'wheel' line are root and admin. Do I
> need to put the new user in the wheel line?
> Or there is this line:
> admin:x:27:admin
> Does the new user need to go in this line?

Don't worry about that -- it will be taken care of after you've 
created your user and made him/her site admin through the gui!

Just try the above and see how it works and email me (off list if you 
want) if there are more problems. This is like baking a pie -- once 
you get the crust right, you can do it every time.

Alfredo (who ALWAYS makes good crust)
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