User manual

Levels of user
Cobalt RaQ 4 User Manual 7
Levels of user
A RaQ 4 can host multiple Internet or intranet sites, which can provide Web
content, email and FTP services. It can be used by three different kinds of users:
• The RaQ 4 Administrator is the person who controls and runs the RaQ 4.
This person sets up and maintains the RaQ 4, sets up virtual sites, and sets
access privileges and provides services for the Site Administrators and site
users. The RaQ 4 Administrator can also act as the Site Administrator for
any virtual site.
• The Site Administrator manages a virtual site, located on the RaQ 4, that can
provide Web publishing, email and FTP services for the users of the site. The
Site Administrator sets up user accounts and access privileges, maintains
mailing lists, controls the settings for the virtual site and its FTP service, has
access to users’ email settings, can generate reports about the virtual site’s
disk and Web usage, and can back up and restore files residing on the site.
• Site users can send and receive email through the site, upload and download
files using the FTP service provided by the site, publish their own personal
Web page on the site, and back up and restore their home directories.
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Note: Whereas industry uses the term “virtual host”, Cobalt
Networks uses the term “virtual site”. In Cobalt’s definition, a
virtual site consists of a Domain Name System (DNS) domain with
Web, FTP and email services. Each virtual site contains its own list
of site user accounts. Each site user account has its own Web, email
spool and any number of email aliases. The fully qualified domain
name of a virtual site is unique to that site, while its IP address can
be shared by many sites. For more information, see “Definition of a
virtual site” on page 35.