On Thursday 02 March 2006 19:00, John Hinton wrote:
> Anyway, in a virtual hosting environment, the last thing you want to do
> is make the mistake of assigning anyone a username such as info, games,
> webmaster, postmaster, accounting and so on because if you do, they'll
> get all mail to info destined for any domain on the machine which does
> not have a info@ address.
Towards this end, I've long had a convention of:
1) all accounts get a 2-4 char id that's semi-descriptive. EG: "Western Oak
Cabinets" might get "woc"
2) All UIDs created to satisfy that customer account get prepended with that
id, then an underscore. Eg: "woc_info".
This makes it very easy to parse /etc/passwd with a script and tie it to the
accounting system with a regex and a few hashes in Perl/PHP/Python. Orphaned
accounts are thus almost completely transparent, since they just won't match
up to a list of currently paying customer accounts.
3) An virtusertable entry is created pointing the
"info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" to "woc_info".
All this is administered by some scripts (and some rote habit) established
years ago. This has nothing particularly to do with websites, so your example
of "http://my_site.com"; has never come up as an issue.
-Ben
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