Re: Another Usermin question...

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Paul Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>When using the mail client in Usermin, how can the domain
>>>be set for the respective user in the event many domains/users
>>>are on the same server? The 'Preferences' doesn't appear to
>>>have that option available and the mail client likes to fill
>>>in the machine name instead of domain name. 
>>
> 
> Yes, there does not appear to be any way for a usermin user to
> manage their 'identity' in the email client. Does anyone really use
> this feature for anything?

Normally the administrator controls user's email addresses. Have
a look at http://www.webmin.com/faq.html question 28.

>>>Infact, after I upgraded, the server seems to forget it's hostname
>>>after a few ssh logins. Could that be a Webmin/Usermin issue? 
>>
> 
> Before I upgraded, I  had usermin installed but hadn't used it or
> let anyone else use it until now, so I don't know if the upgrade
> has anything to do with this situation.
> 
> But with the 3 user accounts I'm using for testing, more often than
> not, with I login to usermin, select Mail and then Compose, the
> From: address comes up "User Name" <user@-f> and for some reason,
> username changes hostname to '-f' and that pops up globally across
> the server. I can reset hostname by:
> 
> /bin/hostname `cat /etc/HOSTNAME | cut -f1 -d .`
> 
> but I think the fact that usermin is reseting the server's hostname
> indicates something is screwy other than me.

What OS and version are you running there? Webmin and usermin use the
command  hostname -f  to get system's full hostname on Linux, but
it may be that some old versions of the hostname command actually end
up setting the name to -f.

  - Jamie