Re: [cobalt-users] sites & users - who can upload files?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jonathan Nichols wrote:

> Hey all-
> 	Just a (hopefully) quick question:
> I've got 2 domains on a RaQ3. Let's call the main domain 
> "raq.host.com" and the other domain "shop.bob.com"
> 
> shop.bob.com has 1 user, bob.
> raq.host.com has 2 users, chip and dale. (chip is the admin)
> 
> Now, in order for bob to be able to FTP pages to 
> /home/sites/www.bob.com (which is actually a symlink to 
> /home/sites/site1),do I *HAVE* to make "bob" a Site Administrator?
> I noticed that this happens in /etc/group:
> site-adm:x:111:admin,bob,chip
> admin:x:27:admin
> mysql:x:112:
> site1:x:113:admin,bob
> [8:45pm] 7 [/etc]:raq%
> 
> I just don't want to change anything in /etc that would void the 
> warranty or screw up something in the GUI.

Then you probably should just give pop a second name as site-admin, you
could give him the same password to make it a little less clumsy...

Part of the trouble is bob has to belong to the group that chip is in ,
but bob can only have one 'default' group, he just shares the others,
which will cause squirrly things to happen when he uploads things..

> 
> Should I just make a user of "webmaster" and tell bob to use that for 
> the main account?

I would recommend something other than 'webmaster' , i get tons of spam
addresses to that name....

> 
> What are the rest of you doing in that situation?

I always give different logins, among other things, it helps keep people
from accidently logging into the wrong site and uploading lots of files
that were supposed to go in the other site...

One thing i wish Cobalt would fix, it's kinda a pain to make bob get email
from the other name...bob2 can't be an alias, you have to forward it,
which makes bob's from address look really strange)

gsh