On Tuesday 03 July 2007 00:06, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Folks:
>
> When building and running an internet web server (actually *on* the
> internet) which hosts various sites (shared hosting), is it usual
> practice for the hosting company to set up individual unix/linux users
> for each site? That is, if there are sites alfa.org and bravo.com on
> this server, and if alfa.org's ftp user is john and bravo.com's ftp user
> is sam, then would you actually create users (adduser/useradd) for john
> and sam on that machine?
>
> Paul
Usually they have some other scheme they use for the actual accounts. So there
can be many john's on that hosted mail server. You login with a full email
address so it's not a problem. This is the norm amongst large ISPs.
As an example I have an individual postmaster for a dozen domains all on the
same server.
--Steve Szmidt
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