Yep - Gotcha about the aliases etc.... but why cant we make the
usernames be their full email address to login to get their mail and FTP
to the site etc etc... I've seen this done on other platforms.... This
approach would guarantee that we will never have a problem with a
username already "taken", since they will always be unique in each vsite....
Regards,
Greg.
Michael Stauber wrote:
> 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.
>
>