Re: [cobalt-users] One User - Admin for multiple domains

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

> However he will NOT appear anywhere in the gui and will not be able to
> be a site administrator on the gui.  To allow that you'd have to make
> changes to how the gui sets up site administrators.

Oooh! I wonder if this is why I couldn't get it to work for me. I was trying
to add the user through the GUI first as a site admin (just for one site),
and then adding that user to the other sites he needed to administrate in
/etc/groups.

Okay then, new question - *really* stupid question.
Could you please direct me to instructions on adding a user and that user's
password without the GUI?
I can do it with the shell tools but since this would add them to the GUI, I
am assuming this won't work the way it needs to.

I was trying it with Diana's instructions here:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-October/022037.html
Which does allow the new administrator to be seen in the GUI - but I could
never get it to work for me.
Thinking now though, I can't remember if I copied the changes over to the
group shadow file; so I am going to try that again first.
The reason I couldn't get it working is one of two things:
1. An error between the seat and the keyboard (meaning me <g>)
2. Some subtle difference in the RaQ4's way of doing things that I haven't
caught yet

If I can get this working I'm going to be happy as a clam, and I'll have at
least one user who has a *lot* of sites who'll be happier than I am! :)
(At least I can change my sites with admin, he has to change to each
individual site's login as it stands.)

CarrieB