Server alias

[diocas]

In order to improve the usability, it might be useful to provide a way to set aliases for a service, allowing users to share using that alias instead of the full url of the service.

Imagine the case of CERNBox: the service is deployed at cernbox.cern.ch, and this should be the endpoint used for auto discovery/getting information about the service (we're not planning to put this information in the top domain, which is not controlled by us). In the current model, a user would have to put username_or_email@cernbox.cern.ch to share something, which is not intuitive. If we set "cern.ch" as an alias, then it would be possible to share with username_or_email@cern.ch- which is generally the way users know each other -, and the client would contact cernbox.cern.ch.

All of this is assuming that the services are configured manually, since - as I understood - you, as a sysadmin, need to approve it first.

[glpatcern]

Resurrecting this issue from the old days, this is addressed by the DNS SRV record described in #82.