Re: [cobalt-users] 2 user names - say it aint so

["Richard Abrams" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I recently created an additional virtual site, and attempted to add the
user
> webmaster, and it stated the user has already been used.  I searched the
> archives, and found only 2 queries regarding this, and each response was
> along the lines of "that's just the way it is".

Greetings!

As adding a 'user' via the Cobalt interface adds a user in Linux security,
each user name *must* be unique.

The solution is to create user names like domainadmin or site1_admin etc,
using some sort of naming convention, and then create an email alias for
each user for webmaster. This enables every virtual site to have a user with
an email address of webmaster. The only time they would need their actual
user name is for FTP access or possibly Telnet (although I am sure you don't
want to give them that :)

Good luck,

        -Richard