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

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:02 PM 2/14/01, you wrote:
> > 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.

Hi Carrie,

I guess this part wasn't clear as I tried to explain how I did it. I DID 
add the new admins with the GUI....but its the server base part....Main 
Site area...not a vhost area- make sure to click the site admin value for 
this new user. There I could set passwords and such. I realize that you 
won't want to give your person access to this area because you first have 
to have access to the main control panel, but it is possible for you to 
handle details for this person using that part if the GUI. The admins I 
added this way had ability to travel up and down the server tree with FTP 
from top to bottom. Each can read what is in other's directories but each 
can only send files into a directory for which he is part of the group.

When I add an admin to this Main Site area, the user is properly placed in 
the various groups automatically, the only one I had to fiddle with 
originally was the wheel line but I've seen the folly of adding anything to 
this group so I don't even do that anymore. The editing of the group file 
means that I only have to add this new admin to his proper group(s). Note: 
there seems to be a necessity for the users in these group lines to be in 
alphabetical order so be sure you place your userID in the proper space. I 
say this because one of mine got out of order and he and everyone after him 
was unable to access the site..fixed by rearranging the users in that line.

I still think this is an iffy thing to do for most people. I have nearly a 
hundred sites on this machine and probably half or more of those are ones I 
administer. Even other users that have multiple sites have to use their 
logins just for their sites....I don't give them this extra admin power. 
It's just for me. I have multiple ways to login now and my numbering scheme 
helps me remember who goes where and gets to do what..:). If you really 
trust your user, then this would definitely streamline his work, but if he 
just set up his logins in WS_FTP for every site he maintains, it doesn't 
have to be done again and again.

hope this clears up stuff related to what I've written before
see ya,
Diana
Crest Communications, Inc.		diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Beautiful Sunny Florida		http://crestcommunications.com/
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