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

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>>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.

Alfredo,
Before I go any further, let me explain.
I completely and totally understand what you were telling me to do, where I
create a site administrator for each site and take 'Admin' out of that
site's Group.
What I am testing out now, though, is the multi-admin setup. Where one admin
can administrate multiple domains through FTP. The reason I want to try this
out is because I have a few clients who have more than one domain on my
machine. Currently I have 3 clients who have 2 domains each, one client who
has 4 domains, and I've got one coming on board next week who will have 7
domains! So I wanted to try the method described in Diana's post, to see if
I could allow those clients to update all of their domains with just one
login.

There are two different things that came out of this thread:
1. Taking 'Admin' out of the Group for each site in order to keep 'Admin'
from hitting the 32-site level. Your method solved that quite easily.
2. Making 'Admin1', 'Admin2', 'Admin3', etc.; each who could administrate a
number of sites with just one FTP login. That was Diana's post, and *that*
is what I'm testing out here.

So don't worry, I'm not messing up your directions, and I don't
misunderstand them. I will be taking Admin out of the sites that aren't
personally mine so that 'he' won't hit the 32-site limit. However, I want to
figure Diana's method out so that I can allow my clients with more than one
site to administrate them all with just one FTP login.
Okay?  :)

Now, with the 'main site' thing discussed above; www.allaboutchoice.com is
the name of my server and it's also the home site (home/sites/home/web) on
the machine.  I properly added a site administrator through the GUI for
allaboutchoice.com and am using that site administrator login (admin2) to
test out this multi-domain administration thing.
I put 'admin2' (no quotes) into other site Groups to see if I could login
through FTP and move around through all of the different sites that 'admin2'
belonged to, as per Diana's instructions.
It's not working as easily as it does for her. I have to think that it's a
RaQ4 thing I need to get past. Actually, I'm thinking of making that my list
sig line. <grin>

Carrie Bartkowiak
"Ain't nuttin' but a RaQ4 thang"
or how about
"They call it a RaQ for a reason. You're gonna RaQ your brain trying to
figure it out."

Hehe