Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 Username/Disk usage problem

[David Minodier <David.Minodier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Cobalt did not really explain how their system
work.... shortly, the management side is based 
on a database in which quite a lot of information 
is stored. 

The webadmin pages (site management) query and 
commit that database. (sorry for my bad english).

When you create a user from the webadmin pages, 
you actually create a user in the database. Some 
backgroud scripts will automatically update the
/etc/passwd, the /etc/shadow and some other files.
for you. 

If you just modify or add or delete a user manually
(by editing the /etc/shadow /etc/passwd) you add/modify/delete
in the linux/unix way. But you don't perform anything in 
the database, which explains the situation you described.

I really would suggest that you use the webadmin pages
to modify users related information.
since the /etc files should be "synchronized" with what's
in the database at any time.

If by any chance someone has a *good* documentation about
what is stored in the database, I'd be pleased to get it.



Dave.
France Telecom



William Linden wrote:
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> I was going to create a user on a RaQ4 with same username and password
> that
> he had on the old system (RedHat Linux). Problem is that the username
> was
> with upper-case letters in the old system and the RaQ4 complains about
> this
> in the following way, when I try to create user:
> 
> Only lower-case letters, digits, (.), (-) and (_) are allowed in user
> name.
> The first character must be a letter or a digit.
> 
> To solve this, I created the user with lower-case letters and manually
> changed it to
> upper-case letters in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. It seems to work fine
> and user can log on with eg. ftp.
> 
> What is weird is that in "Site management / Usermanagement" the username
> is
> still with lower-case letters and in "Site management / Site Usage /
> Disk Usage"
> the username is lower-case and user has used no space although he really
> has
> many MB in his directory. I have found no place to change this.. :-/
> 
> Anyone had same kind of problem and found a solution for it ?
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
> William Lindén,
> Multi.fi FINLAND.
> 
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