On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 12:25, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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> Hello Bill,
>
> Tuesday, September 04, 2001, 7:02:38 PM, you wrote:
> > on 9/4/01 10:20 AM, Gabriel Ambuehl at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > spake:
> >> IMNSHO, the user tools should NOT operate on user@aliasdomain
> >> anyway cause an aliasdomain is an aliasdomain and nothing more,
> >> the user is user@masterdomain and thus one should work only on the
> >> masterdomain.
> > Sounds like I'm in the minority!
>
> That's why I'm asking. I'm generally not against fixing it but I
> don't
> mind if I don't need to cause I'm a lazy (the sales people would call
> it efficient :-) person...
>
> >> I could, of course, patch vget_assign() to call get_domain_type()
> >> first and in case of an aliasdomain simply return dir, uid, gid of
> >> the masterdomain, thoughts?
>
> > Nah, if people feel strongly that alias domains should not be
> > treated as real accounts, then it's probably best to leave things
> > as they are.
>
> I mean I don't know what the others involved would like to say about
> it, but I for myself would leave things the way as they are.
>
> Ken, is vget_assign() used anywhere to do something else than getting
> dir, uid, gid of the domain to work on? If it isn't it would be ok if
> it simply returns the values for the masterdomain if invented on an
> aliasdomain, right?
There is code that uses vget_assign to see if a domain exists,
and then get the dir, uid, gid of the domain. It would be okay
to return the masterdomain info.
How do you know if a domain is aliased?
Ken
