steve szmidt wrote:
> 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.
You mentioned mail servers all the way through your reply. Remember, I'm
talking about FTP access. Do your comments apply to FTP as well?
Paul
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