[cobalt-users] Re:Same username, multiple sites...

["Cobalt User" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for all your help.  I did like everyone said and configured them 
as alliases and all is well.

Thanks again.

Mark



---------- Original Message -----------
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt User" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:15:16 -0400
Subject: Re:Same username, multiple sites...

> At 4:56 PM -0400 7/2/02, Cobalt User is rumored to have typed:
> 
> > I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to configure the same
> > username on multiple virtual sites.
> 
>    No. It is completely impossible to have two unix accounts with 
> the same name. Period.
> 
>    Workaround is simple, though, and the same one used by _every_ other
> hosting service I've ever run into. Create a username for the site 
> (say, for widgets.com, maybe "widgets" or something equally original)
>  and set the Email Alias (in the GUI) to webmaster, etc. You should 
> NEVER give a regular user a system box name....it's one of the 
> reason I hate having my clients have access to creating their own 
> usernames because they inevitably try this stupid stunt. (The other 
> is having one guy set up "sam" as an account, and having the next 
> Sam start squealing.)
> 
>          Charlie
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