Re: [cobalt-users] Username Already in use?!?

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> > They all share one passwd file.  You have to set up unique login
> > names, and then use email aliases to get them the address they
> > want (if it's a dupe).
>
> Yeah...
> Just tell this to your Webhost Customers where they try to setup a
> office, service, abuse, info or postmaster account

Email addresses and login addresses are completely separate.  Unless 
you can completely virtualize all services, there's not a good way 
around this (sell them each their own server?).  The Cobalt team 
tinkered with this for a while, but it was going to require 
username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as a login name to keep everything separate. 
*That* would get a much bigger laugh, I would imagine...

That's what email aliases are for.  I've found that enough people use 
AOL, etc, where unique names are required that it isn't much of an 
issue, especially when they realize they can still have the email 
address they want (except postmaster, of course - that's a system 
account, but you can redirect that for them as well if you really 
want to). Those others you listed (besides postmaster) are not 
already used/reserved by the system, so there's no reason they 
couldn't set up aliases for them.  And the lucky first signup could 
get them as actual login names too...

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Bruce Timberlake

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