RE: [cobalt-users] Question about Delegating Admin Privileges

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On page 33 of the RaQ4 manual it discusses how you can delegate
> administration for a web site to someone other than the admin user.
>
> What I am interested in doing is maintaining admin control over the
> server, but delegating many tasks.  I'd create user1, user2, etc and
> then user1 could create domains and sites for themselves, user2 could
> create domains and sites for themselves etc.  In other words, user1
> and user2 are two different customers that have the power to divvy up
> their space as they decide they want to.
>
> Is this possible?  The manual on pg. 33 mentions creating Site
> Administrators, however, I can't figure out how to do that.  A hint
> would be appreciated, this must be right under my nose.
>

Site administrators are not server administrators.
There's an addvsite shell tool that I expect could be run from a Perl script
on a password protected page, or via SSH with the proper permissions. See
the archives.
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Dan Kriwitsky