Date:  Thu, 22 May 2008 23:07:51 +0200
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:13049] Re: Error creating new site
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <200805222307.51965.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
In-Reply-To:  <4835725F.3050105 (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com>
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Hi Greg,

> Let me be bold for a moment, and ask a dumb question for a moment. Why?
>
> Yes, I know it cant be done at a unix level 

Well, on the Unix/Linux level a user can belong to multiple groups. But for 
the sake of more simplicity for the user management and email handling it 
makes sense to allow regular users to be members of only one group.

> but why cant we create users in a more appropriate format - using for
> example their email address as their username?
>
> What parts of BQ will break if we moved to a system that used for
> example test (at mark) domain1.com, and test (at mark) domain2.com as two unique usernames?

Generally nothing speaks against having ...

test (at mark) domain1.com
test (at mark) domain2.com
...
test (at mark) domain100.com

Provided the "test" part is an alias. 

You can set up users like this:

Username: 	Alias:		Domain:
test1		test		domain1.com
test2		test		domain2.com
...
test100		test		domain100.com

That would do what you want without forcing the GUI to do something that it 
usually won't allow.

-- 
With best regards,

Michael Stauber