RE: [Emerald] Unique Logins

Todd Hutchinson ( emerald@fisolutions.com )
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 07:07:42 -0700

Thank you for the response, we don't bill for usage yet, but I'll keep that in mind.

Todd Hutchinson

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale E. Reed Jr. [SMTP:daler@iea-software.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 10:36 AM
To: emerald@iea-software.com
Subject: Re: [Emerald] Unique Logins

Todd Hutchinson wrote:
>
> > Your looking at the Unique Logins option backwards. Unique Logins
> > allows that group to have a setup of unique logins from other
> > groups. Its not a good choice, when you look at authentication,
> > unless you require all your users to login with user@domain
> > (if there are two joes and one logins with just joe, then Emerald
> > can not tell which joe it is).
>
> I was told that this was a feature of emerald. Emerald looks at the user
> name and looks at the first password, if that doesn't match then it is
> suppose to look at the next password. If that feature doesn't work then do
> I need to buy a copy of emerald for each virtual ISP, so they can all have
> their joe@theirdomain.com?

Sorry I wasn't clear on this. Authentication for multiple users with
the same name is fine. However, the accounting is not as easy, as
Emerald can not accurate bill for usage or show usage between
multiple users with the same login.

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Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT__________________________________________IEA Software, Inc. www.iea-software.com