Re: [cpx] Changing Domain Admins?

[Andy McKell <veriomail@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bill

Unless an upgrade has solved this in the meantime, you cannot change the DA 
in CPX
You can only change it in cpx.conf. Here's what support told me..

> There is a way to change the domain admin. You can use a text editor to 
> edit the settings in cpx. Go to
> /usr/local/etc
> With in that directory there is a file called
> cpx.conf
> In the the cpx configuration file there are 2 places to edit. First there 
> is the domain entry, where there is listed
> <admin>name</admin>
> Change the admin for the domain here. After that you will need to 
> edit   the user configuration.
>
> by adding
> <domain_admin/>
>       <eu_capabilities>
>         <ftp/>
>         <shell/>
>         <mail/>
>       </eu_capabilities>
>
> The eu_capabilities is the ability to create users with certain 
> permissions. If there is web content as well you will have to copy the web 
> content over to the other user, change the directory and files owner. Also 
> change the group if that is necesseary. Then you will have to edit the 
> virtual host in the
> httpd.conf
> file located at /www/conf/httpd.conf
> Look for the domains virtual host and update the document root as well as 
> the CGI alias locations for the other user. After that you will have to 
> login to the server using telnet/ssh to restart apache.

(You had a similar problem a few weeks ago, I remember)

Andy




At 12:25 PM 4/28/2005 -0400, you wrote:

> I would like to change the domain admin for a domain. I have not tried 
> anything, because I was potentially afraid of the outcome ;-)
>
> There are two cases... if the user already exists, or if you are willing 
> to add a new user.
>
> Can you add a new domain admin so the domain has two of them, and then 
> delete the first one?
>
> Or, can you take an existing end user and promote him to a domain admin? 
> And then possibly delete the first domain admin...
>
> In my case, I can do it either way (add a domain admin, or use an existing 
> user). But have not tried...
>
> Bill
>
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