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Old 08-02-2011
useradd I want to change domain
Good morning every body
When I add a new user the domain is my hostname
I want to change it to my local domain
EXample
my computer hostname is X when I create a new user Y and he logged I see X@Y and me I want to have Y@localdomain
Think
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Old 08-02-2011
users are on hosts, hosts are in domains. Internally, host-domain is in resolv.conf, externally on DNS records or DHCP if dynamic, especially the IP reverse lookup PTR record, which allows one primary name for each IP, even if a host IP has other names due to CNAME or redundant A records.
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