Re: Shell accounts for multiple domains on one box

[Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:36:55AM -0800, Stephen Le wrote:
> You'd just have to remind your users that their login name is not
> their exact mail address -- it'll be their mail address with the @
> symbol replaced with a period. Not too hard.

You'd be surprised. As I mentioned, the consultancy I'm
working for nowadays uses 'user-domain-com', and users have
a hell of a time understanding what that's about.

The end result -- whether I do this through the shell or
through virtual domains in Postfix or whatever -- is that I
want a naive user in Outlook to be able to set his or her
IMAP server to 'domain.com' and his username to 'user', even
if the IMAP server is actually sitting on a machine called
'foo.com'.

The reason I wanted shell access is that users may want to
edit their websites, and I figured they'd be using the
shell. But probably most users will only want to edit their
website files on their own desktops, then upload them or use
some web-based site editor (a la Movable Type) to do the
changes. And for that, I'm sure I could use some
roles-and-permissions system that sits above the shell.
(Right?)

It sounds -- from all your very helpful comments -- like
even bothering with shell accounts for this sort of thing is
not worth it. And come to think of it, users might not even
care all that much about shell access.

Thanks again,
Steve

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