On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > > > > > I c... so that means that global admins have to have unqualified > > > usernames, which are then qualified with the default domain? If that's the > > > case, then global admins can only come from the defaultdomain? That seems > > > kinda.. well, dumb. Why not just have a seperate admins line specifically > > > for global admins? > > > > Why does it matter? Admin accounts aren't real accounts anyway -- they > > shouldn't be recieving mail, in any case. > > > > I'm personally against the use of a global admins option unless there is > > some significant technical advantage gained. > > Well, the only real advantage (for me) for a global admin is that I have > one account I use from my server side web scripts to manage all of the > accounts. I can handle the per domain permissions and stuff like that > outside of cyrus and just use the global administrative account as the > backend access for my web scripts. >
If this is the case, then cyrus does what you need. Please see my previous message for guidelines on how to setup global admins. > I actually personally don't care what username I use to get it, but I > don't think it should go missing. It just feels a little confusing and > unclear why things are tied together the way they are. Perhaps. But this is what most of the list wanted when Ken wrote the code. -- Igor
