RE: [Emerald] Serv-U

Nathan Haywood ( nhaywood@whro.org )
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:34:51 -0500

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Just leave the Home Directory field blank in the Administrator. That way, it
won't automatically fill-in the Home Directory field on the Subaccount
screen. When you (manually) fill-in the field (for the users who *do* get
webspace), Emerald will create the directory for those users.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Facer [mailto:bfacer@hughestech.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:23 PM
To: emerald@iea-software.com
Subject: [Emerald] Serv-U

We are setting up ServU with Emerald, but are not planning to create
directories for every user by default. Is there a way to alter the action of
the "directory" field in a new service so that if it's left blank it does
NOT create a directory, thus only creating a directory if its filled in?
I think the easiest way to handle this would be like the "shell" field,
where a Capitalized Login fills in the field automatically.

I raise this because we are migrating from a Unix based personal webserver
that was creating directories automatically. Even with only 1000 accounts on
the old machine it would literally take days to sort through each to find
the active ones (maybe 10%, if even that). This is more for future planning,
so that this wouldnt be the case and only directories that are active would
be created.

Any info on how to selectively craete the directories would help, as it
beats the alternative of manually getting them in thru ServU

Brad
Hughestech
Rockford, IL

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Just leave the Home Directory field blank in the Administrator. That way, it won't automatically fill-in the Home Directory field on the Subaccount screen. When you (manually) fill-in the field (for the users who *do* get webspace), Emerald will create the directory for those users.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Facer [mailto:bfacer@hughestech.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:23 PM
To: emerald@iea-software.com
Subject: [Emerald] Serv-U

We are setting up ServU with Emerald, but are not planning to create directories for every user by default. Is there a way to alter the action of the "directory" field in a new service so that if it's left blank it does NOT create a directory, thus only creating a directory if its filled in?         I think the easiest way to handle this would be like the "shell" field, where a Capitalized Login fills in the field automatically.
 
I raise this because we are migrating from a Unix based personal webserver that was creating directories automatically. Even with only 1000 accounts on the old machine it would literally take days to sort through each to find the active ones (maybe 10%, if even that). This is more for future planning, so that this wouldnt be the case and only directories that are active would be created.
 
Any info on how to selectively craete the directories would help, as it beats the alternative of manually getting them in thru ServU
 
Brad
Hughestech
Rockford, IL
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