Changing user name

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3 total messages Started by Giolla Decair Tue, 01 Oct 1996 00:00

#56

Author: Giolla Decair
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 00:00

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As you're thinking of a new release,
here's a small thing for the wish list, is it 
possible or could it be possible to be able to
change between users without exiting
changing the environment variable and restarting?

I may have overlooked how to do it, but as I admin
a few lists and use different contact names for
the lists it can be quite annoying.

Just a thought, if there's an easy way to do it
already please tell me.

Re: Changing user name

#59

Author: Nikki Locke - Cppnews newsreader...
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <32506880.16925966@news.demon.co.uk>
   giolla@ogham.org (Giolla Decair) writes:
> As you're thinking of a new release,
> here's a small thing for the wish list, is it 
> possible or could it be possible to be able to
> change between users without exiting
> changing the environment variable and restarting?
> 
> I may have overlooked how to do it, but as I admin
> a few lists and use different contact names for
> the lists it can be quite annoying.

It is rarely necessary to change user names unless you are in a truly 
multi-user situation (i.e. more than one person is using the newsbase).

Look in the documentation under "Automatic Reply-To, From and Full name
headers, and signature file selection" to see how to set different 
"identities" for different groups/folders. Then, assuming you log on as 
the super user, so you can see all the mail folders, you can have your 
contact names filled in automatically, depending what group or folder you 
are reading.

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Re: Changing user name

#60

Author: Giolla Decair
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00

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Previously cppnews@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke - Cppnews
newsreader support) said:
>In article <32506880.16925966@news.demon.co.uk>
>   giolla@ogham.org (Giolla Decair) writes:
>> As you're thinking of a new release,
>> here's a small thing for the wish list, is it 
>> possible or could it be possible to be able to
>> change between users without exiting
>> changing the environment variable and restarting?
>> I may have overlooked how to do it, but as I admin
>> a few lists and use different contact names for
>> the lists it can be quite annoying.
>It is rarely necessary to change user names unless you are in a truly 
>multi-user situation (i.e. more than one person is using the newsbase).

That is the situation I'm in, at the moment we close down cppnews
run a batch file to change the environment variable and restart
cppnews, a bit of an annoyance and has made me give up on the DIS
front end.

>Look in the documentation under "Automatic Reply-To, From and Full name
>headers, and signature file selection" to see how to set different 
>"identities" for different groups/folders. Then, assuming you log on as 
>the super user, so you can see all the mail folders, you can have your 
>contact names filled in automatically, depending what group or folder you 
>are reading.

Thanks for the pointer.

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