Re: [cpx] Quotas (was Separation of Roles)

["Norman R. Prevett" <norm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

This isn't a bad thing. A DA might have a 1 GB quota and assign 200 MB 
each to 10 users if the DA is confident that the users are downloading 
and removing mail regularly. The larger individual quota allows the 
users to accept more mail, larger attachments etc. and statistically 
they are not likely to all need their full quota at the same time.

Ricardo Newbery wrote:

> At 11:05 AM -0500 1/28/06, AlpineWeb wrote:
>
> > Hello Ric,
> >
> > You have it backwards. A "Domain Admin" is not "affected" by it's end 
> > users but rather the other way around. If you allocate 1000MBs disk 
> > quota for the Domain Admin then the sum total quota for ALL end users 
> > managed by said Domain Admin would be 1000MBs.
> >
> > HTH's
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Uwe Schneider
>
>
>
>
> I don't believe I claimed that in the current CPX the Domain Admin's 
> quota is "affected" by its end users, just that perhaps it *should*.
>
> Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding something here but the "end 
> users" quota count doesn't include the Domain Admin account which is 
> where the domain's web files reside.  So if the disk quota for the 
> Domain Admin account is *still* 1000 MB after you've allocated 1000 MB 
> to all the "end users" then you've effectively *doubled* the total 
> amount of allocated disk space.
>
> I'm guessing in most setups, there is a significant asymmetry between 
> the disk resource requirements of "end users" versus Domain Admins.
>
> Suppose I need to allocate 1 GB for web file space and 2 mail-only end 
> users.  With the current model, that would be a 500 MB mail quota for 
> each account IN ADDITION to the 1 GB quota for the web file space.
>
> Or conversely, what if I need to setup 200 email accounts with 20 MB 
> quotas?  I would need a Domain Admin with a 4,000 MB quota for a total 
> of 8,000 MB, of which a large portion would be 
> overallocated/underutilized web file space -- assuming I've actually 
> got 8 GB of real disk space.
>
> Of course, all of this could also be solved if I could push the web 
> file space off to one of the end user accounts.  That brings us back 
> to separation of roles again.  I would like to be able have a Domain 
> Admin account that does nothing but manage permissions, quotas, and 
> email mappings for the domain and a "end user" account that handles 
> the domain's web file space.  And if I could disable the other Domain 
> Admin's privileges (Mail, FTP, File Management, Shell Access) without 
> still allowing the ability to the *grant* these privileges to the "end 
> user" accounts, then CPX would be a much better match for my use case.
>
> Ric
>
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