In addition to that having username allows you to have sub-users with limited access to the management of the domain.
Leonid On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Charles Daminato wrote: > When you want to associate multiple domains into the same profile, using > just the password isn't enough, since we'd have to ensure any password > that's previously used (and isn't *your* profile) isn't duplicated. > > And for security reasons, if we use just domain/password, there's already > one public piece of information for access to the domain. With a username > it's a higher level of security (through obscurity) > > Charles Daminato > OpenSRS Product Manager > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Fagyal Csongor > > Sent: March 13, 2002 9:44 AM > > To: Frank Michlick; klaus rubba; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: reg_username and reg_password > > > > > > > > > > > Klaus, > > > > > > the username/password are not unique, the domain name is the unique > > identifier > > > used in our systems. So the same username can be used several times on > > different > > Why is there a password then, if profiles are made of > > domain/username/password triples? > > > > Please show me an example where a domain/password pair is not enough. > > > > - Cs. > > > > > > > -- Leonid Igolnik.
