Paul M Foster wrote:
> 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
>
I've seen the same naming convention for FTP sites too. I had a client
with several websites on the same host, and each site had an
admin@<Insert_Website_Domain_Here> to administer the account and as an
initial FTP user so the actual web contents could be updated. I believe
this is typical with some virtual hosting platforms, that does the
meda-management of the all of the virtual hosts.
VT
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