Just wondering if it's possible to have multiple usernames on the same raq? ie. webmaster@domain1.com and webmaster@domain2.com without using aliases.

I was told many times that all usernames must be unique on the server, but I've also heard from elsewhere that we can have multiple usernames on the raq.

Is there any software available or scripts available that can allow this for the Raq?

Look on the cobalt site for this. Usernames must be unique, but you can fix the e-mail address with aliases.

Frank

Aloha
well do a search this has been covered before
but here goes a quick version

make domain1 email/User something like dm1.admin
then make an alias for that to be webmaster

make domain2 email/User something like dm2.admin
and alias it as webmaster

keep that going
I use a 3 letter code for each domain
the prob is that if you have users you will have to ask for them to do this on every email they set up
if you are using your raq for your stuff easy to control

teh big downside of the raq panel

Thanks for your help but someone already told me about using the alias method a while ago.

I was just hoping that everyone is wrong and that there is a way to do that, that's all :stickout

Guess not...

This has nothing to do with the Raq or the cobalt's version of linux. This is because you have a single server with one username/password file. There is no way to grant the same username to multiple people. This is true of every OS that I know of. Ths is pretty simple. Just pretend your the computer. If I can give the same username to more than one person, how do I know which webmaster is logging in? You don't. So username need to be unique for authentication purposes.

But if you add the domain extension to it, then it becomes unique.

ie. username@domain1.com is different to username@domain2.com whereas username is the same in both cases.

I know there is some software out there, (I'm not sure, but myabe qmail?) that can do this. I know coz I'm hosting a few of my domains on various virtual hosts out there and they allow same usernames as long as they are on different domains.

Too busy working on the new control panel at the moment to research this in detail.

Just do this...

create your sites:
domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com

Say the user you want is 'johnny'...

for domain1 create johnny
for domain2 create johnny2
for domain3 create johnny3

- johnny@domain1.com is already created
- add an alias for johnny2@domain2.com called 'johnny@domain2.com'
- add an alias for johnny3@domain3.com called 'johnny@domain3.com'

You can take it a step further by forwarding johnny2 and johnny3's mail to johnny@domain1.com if it's the same guy...

Maybe that'll clear it up?

As everyone has said, you can only have one 'johnny' on the server as a true user name, aliasing is your way around it. Sometimes different software allows you to go off a different file besides /etc/password though, like ncftpd, and perhaps qmail.. ncftpd allows you to create a user list, and can use that instead of actually creating accounts on the box for security purposes.