username limited to some caracters?

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pluk

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Hi,

I'm new to DA. On the username, we can only go up to some caracters? Anyway we could the whole username+domain to authenticate?

The problem is more like using the same username on different domain. ie: peter George (as pgeorge@xyz.com) AND Philip George (as pgeorge@abc.com)

This doesn't seem to work. It says user already exists.

Thanks!
 
A "username" can only exist once on any linux or unix server.

However, mailbox names are not the same as usernames, and you should be able to create both pgeorge@xyz.com and pgeorge@abc.com without difficulty.

We can, and do, and we don't have a problem with it.

Are you trying to create mailbox names or usernames (domain owners)?

Jeff
 
The problem comes in creating user names (not emails) that exists on many domains. I assume the best way is to give random usernames for each user and not to use like the standard (first caracter of firstname+lastname).
 
I guess I'm confused because I don't understand the purpose you have for a username.

If it's not to get email, is it just to log in to the control panel? Or to FTP data into the site?

Any given username can only exist once on a linux server; that's a unix limitation.

However with DA you can set up multiple mailboxes, for example, you can have me@example.com, me@example.net, and me@example.org, where all three are separate domains.

But when you log in to user "me" you'll always get the same control panel, no matter which domain you put in the browser, as the only purpose of the domain name in the browser is to resolve to the IP# answered by the server.

Or am i still missing something in your post?

Jeff
 
Sorry for the confusion.

What happens if all me@domain1.com and me@domain2.com are actually different people of different domain (they don't know each other).

I understand now that UNIX gets a username per person and DA can give many email names to the same username.

I've been giving out to users of different domain firstname and lastname as usernames. I often caught in situations where 2 username nomenclature (writing) are the same and I get duplicate username. Since you said we can't have same with different domain for usernames, then I understand.

As for emails, it's doing well even though I get me@domain1.com and me@domain2.com for different people. They are different.
 
I still don't understand YOUR definition of a username. We name our "usernames" after their main domain, not after the people who use them.

Jeff
 
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