Problem with the "default" mail-user

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#1 Thu, 11/27/2008 - 06:39
trie

Problem with the "default" mail-user

Hi,

I have a little problem with the default-mailadress created with the virtual server. I.e: When I create a new virtual server f.e. mydomain.com it creates a user "mydomain" with an email-address mydomain@mydomain.com. Can I change this to an additional user? Because I don't want the user having this email-address have ftp,ssh,mysql-access... I tried to disable the field "primary email address" for this user and create a new user, but virtualmin says that this user already exists...

cu Tim

Thu, 11/27/2008 - 08:22
andreychek

Hi Tim,

Creating an account for a Virtual Server also creates a system account -- since email and FTP accounts require a system account as well, you couldn't name them the same thing.

But, you could disable MySQL and FTP access, and disable the primary email address as you mentioned, then create a new user -- named something different -- and if you want the mydomain@mydomain.com to work, just make that an email alias associated with separate account.
-Eric

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