The profile is to allow the registrant to manage their domain name. Not all
resellers back-end OpenSRS; some don't even use the client code and direct
their clients to manage their domains at https://manage.opensrs.net/
:)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - chuck@tucows.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry A Byrne [mailto:barry.byrne@cw.com]
> Sent: January 31, 2002 4:35 AM
> To: Charles Daminato
> Cc: UK Internet Sites; dev-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: Re: Back-ending Opensrs
>
>
> In the light of this clarification, what is the rationale for having an
> end-user
> profile anyway?
> If we resellers keep the end-user profiles secret, we might just as well
> have
> a reseller profile.
>
> Transfers between resellers currently require the end-user profile to be
> transferred
> according to the new reseller's policy.
> (But could also be achieved by a change of reseller profile)
>
> Transfers out of OpenSRS make the profile redundant.
>
>
> Barry A Byrne
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Daminato" <chuck@tucows.com>
> To: "Barry A Byrne" <barry.byrne@cw.com>
> Cc: "UK Internet Sites" <lists@ukinternetsites.com>;
> <dev-list@opensrs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Back-ending Opensrs
>
>
> > And it will be up to the sponsoring reseller to grant that or
> > not; assuming they've got just cause for withholding the OpenSRS info (I
> > mean, if you're granted the same access priveledges as you would be via
> > OpenSRS, then... what does it matter?)
> >
> > Some resellers like to stay as invisible as possible to the OpenSRS
> > process.
> >
> > Charles Daminato
> > TUCOWS Product Manager
> > chuck@tucows.com
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Barry A Byrne wrote:
> >
> > > End-users will need to know their usernames and passwords if they ever
> > > (shock! horror!)
> > > want to deal directly with OpenSRS.
> > >
> > > Barry A Byrne
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Charles Daminato" <chuck@tucows.com>
> > > To: "UK Internet Sites" <lists@ukinternetsites.com>
> > > Cc: <dev-list@opensrs.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:19 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Back-ending Opensrs
> > >
> > >
> > > > Graeme,
> > > >
> > > > You are free to use any values (within the syntax, of
> course) for the
> > > > OpenSRS username/password, and keep your customers coming to you
> > > > site. You will, of course, need to maintain a local database of
> values,
> > > > so you system can login "as" the user. Whether you want to maintain
> the
> > > > same profile (not recommended for security reasons - one person gets
> that
> > > > profile info, they can access all the domains within it) or seperate
> > > > profiles for each domain (you may want to group domains owned by the
> same
> > > > person in the same profile) is up to you.
> > > >
> > > > OpenSRS never sends out the username/password on behalf of the
> reseller,
> > > > for just this reason. Many resellers employ this method. The only
> > > > possible exception is under extenuating circumstances regarding
> disputes
> > > > and compliance issues, and extensive correspondence would
> be attempted
> > > > with the reseller before this ever happened.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers :)
> > > >
> > > > Charles Daminato
> > > > TUCOWS Product Manager
> > > > chuck@tucows.com
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, UK Internet Sites wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > My company is about to start selling domain names though Open SRS.
> At
> > > the moment we are
> > > > > just Nominet members and of course just sell .uk domain names.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway we have our own customer Control Panel, which allows
> customers to
> > > manage all there
> > > > > domain names under one account, and setup extra free services
> (web/email
> > > forwarding etc).
> > > > > What we are looking at doing this keeping this, and simply when
> someone
> > > orders a Open SRS
> > > > > domain name, our scripts just connect to opensrs and exchange the
> > > commands.
> > > > >
> > > > > So the question is, when you register a domain name with Open SRS,
> it
> > > asks for a
> > > > > username/password for the domain name. Now as our
> customers already
> > > have an account with
> > > > > us, and we don't want them managing there domain name
> from anywhere
> at
> > > all but though our
> > > > > control panel - what do we use as the username/password
> to register
> the
> > > domain name with
> > > > > Open SRS?
> > > > >
> > > > > Do we just make one up (and never give it to the
> customer), or maybe
> > > attach all the domain
> > > > > names to our own Open SRS account?
> > > > >
> > > > > Also as our customers are going to be admin contacts for there
> domain
> > > names, would they be
> > > > > able to for example contact Open SRS support and ask for there
> > > username/password, or even
> > > > > get the password sent to them some how?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for any help you can give,
> > > > >
> > > > > Graeme Sandwell
> > > > > UK Internet Sites Limited.
> > > > > http://www.ukinternetsites.com/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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