Adding User Accounts

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You add user accounts when you want to enable individuals to log in to the user administrator and site administrator control panel or use your site's services. To add multiple user accounts at once, you can import users.

To add a user account:

1. Go to the Add user wizard. To do this, on the top navigation bar, click users, then click add user.
2. Complete the User Information form, then click Next. On the form, * indicates required information.

   User information includes:

   • Username. A name that identifies the user. The user types this name, followed by your domain name, which is displayed next to the text box for reference, when logging in to the user administrator control panel. The username and your domain name are also the user's email address at your site. Usernames can be up to 15 alphanumeric characters in length, and they cannot contain spaces or HTML tags.
   • The username cannot be changed after the user is added.
   • First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name. Optional. The name of the user in any form you want. Any input in these boxes is valid.
   • Password and Confirm Password. The password you want the user to type when they log in to the user control panel. Password requirements
     

     The minimum length and complexity of passwords depend upon the system password policy set on the server. Please contact your service provider for these details. If specified, passwords are case sensitive, cannot contain spaces, and can be up to 47 characters in length. To increase security, passwords should contain both alphabetical and numerical characters. Allowed characters include: a-z A-Z 0-9 , . - _ / + $ : % @ \ = ? !

   • Site Administrator Privileges. Optional. Whether the user is allowed to log in to the site control panel. If this box is checked, the user can log in to both the site and user administrator control panels. If not, the user can log in to the user administrator control panel only.
   • External Email. Optional. An email address at which the individual can be contacted. This address is external to the user account you are adding. It is used for system messages, such as the welcome message and warnings about mailbox disk space limits. If no external email address is provided, users do not receive warning messages when their mailboxes exceed resource limits.
   • Phone. Optional. A telephone number at which the user can be contacted.
   • Description. Optional. Any additional information you want to provide about the user. Any input in this box is valid.
3. Choose the services you want to enable for the user, then click Next. If no services are listed, contact your service provider to enable services for your site.
4. If you chose to enable services for the user, choose the options you want to enable for each service. For more information about service options, click this link below to open the service-specific Help.
   

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   The General Help system, which you are viewing now, provides links to service-specific Help where appropriate. If there are no service-related links in a General Help topic, it might be that no services are available, or Help on the topic is unavailable for installed services.

   To access service-specific Help any time, click the links on the Help navigation panel in the lower left of the control panel.

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5. Verify the information about the user. To make changes, click Previous. To add the user, click Finish. The user's account is available for use as soon as it is added.

Next Quick-start topic: Enable Services for Users