 |  |
john@relia.net wrote:
Re: Duplicate Logins and emails
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2002
Time: 1:48:49 pm
> No, let me try to clarify this, I hate typing novels, but I guess not
> everyone can read my mind...
>
> Example
>
> Customer John Doe w/login of "jdoe" password "password"
> Has 2 add'l emailboxes of "janedoe" password "whatever"
> And "jeffdoe" password "whatever"
>
> When John logs into web interface he see something like this...
>
> Emails For: testtm
> The Following Emails Are On File With Your Account
>
>
> POP janedoe
> POP jeffdoe
>
>
>
> So I guess John doe thinks his email is missing and adds "jdoe" again and
> "newpass" and OPTI lets him!! So now his login is in the main login field
> on the account AND under services as an emailbox. I can see the logic for
> some ISP's who may do different things between email and radius etc. But
> for those of us who use the main login for their email address, I can see
> many problems with this.
>
> First of all, a customer who changes their password in 'services' will not
> be changing the main account password or vice versa (sp?) even though they
> 'think' that they are, so how do they keep from getting confused about this?
> It seems like OPTI used to not allow this to happen, but then again we use
> to have OPTI create the email address automatically to match login, but we
> know better now and don't so we can keep logins separate from email
> addresses (email addresses should not be in radius)
>
> I'm only guessing here, but I think it has to do with the fact that when a
> user clicks on their "View Emails" option on the web interface, it will list
> their email addresses in a nice recognizable fashion. But it does not list
> their main login (It's shown above in the table header, but not in the list
> of emails) So I assume they are thinking that they need to add it, so they
> add a new email address which matches their main login (which by default IS
> their email address)
>
> Now I have no idea why some people are doing this...all I know is up pops
> new emails waiting for server approval, and I happen to recognize some as
> already existing logins. And what happens if we try and delete it? Yep, it
> deletes the main login.
>
> I hope that this problem makes more sense now, I was thinking it's probably
> just something that we don't have checked somewhere in main/prefs, but I'm
> not sure what, that's why I'm asking.
>
> Just to clarify other things, we use a mySQL database for radius w/scripts
> that connect from OPTI to update the database. So when a user adds a
> duplicate email address, our database will kick out an error because it
> already exists, but if you delete it, it will delete because the username
> matches it to the existing username.
So you have a single MySQL table that authenticates both your email and
dialup users?
- Shawn
-------------------------------
Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696
---------------------------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe or to search list archive
please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists/isp.html
---------------------------------------------------
Messages In This Thread:
Return to Digital Point Solutions' Home Page
| home | |
| products | |
| services | |
| support | |
| email lists |
| optigold isp | |
| optigold isp news | |
| home inspection | |
| inspectrix | |
| java companion | |
| oracle | |
| quickdns pro | |
| search engine | |
| veterinary |
| tips | |
| employees | |
| free tools | |
| portfolio | |
| jobs | |
| contact |
888/4-DPOINTSupport:
858/452-3696