Re: [mv] One MV server, multiple users

[Steve & Patti Getzinger <steveandpatti@wubs.org>]

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  Here is what I have used for a few years with no problems. Install MV/IC and give it
username minivend & group minivend. Users have their own groups also so steve is in group
steve. Now edit the group file and add the user minivend to the group steve. Ok now run
makecat and give it M and minivend as the minivend user and cat user is steve and
minivend group is steve. Runs without a hitch.

Of course minivend and steve can be whatever you need them to be.

Steve

Ed LaFrance wrote:

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> Hello all -
>
> This one appears many times in the MV mail list archives, but I did not
> find a real succinct answer, just some suggestions.  Simply put, what is
> the best way to set up one MV install so it can run multiple catalogs,
> owned by different users?  I have tried both the 'mulitple group' and
> 'group' installation configurations, which seem like they should work, but
> have not.  The catalogs which are owned by a different user than the owner
> of the MV server never run; either they die at MV startup, or the link file
> returns a 500 error in the browser.  The only error messages I get is in
> former case: "...could not tie to locale.gdbm, permission denied", echoed
> on the command line.  I seems that permissions are preventing the catalog
> from running correctly, but they are set in a way that make sense to me:
> user and group read an write, the link file owned by the MV user.  All
> users are in the same group when running in group mode; when running in
> multiple group mode I put each user in its own group and added that group
> as a secondary for the MV server owner.
>
> In all cases I am using the tarball dist of minivend, using 3.14-6 at this
> point, though I would like to do this with 4.04 and Intechange eventually.
>
> Could anyone who has done this successfully share some details with me?
>
> - Ed L.
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