Adding a user

When you create a subdomain, you can choose to be the owner of the subdomain or delegate ownership to a site user. If you choose to delegate ownership to a site user, before you assign the subdomain, you must ensure that the user exists.

To add a user:

1. In the shortcuts area of the Home page
   , click Subdomains (Web Server section). The Subdomain window opens.

2. In the Subdomain submenu, click Add Owner. The Mailboxes/Users window opens.

3. Optional: If you are adding many users with similar settings, you can set the User Defaults template to preset the disk quota and services options on the Add User form.

4. In the Username field, enter the name you want the user to type when he logs on. User names can be up to 40 alphanumeric characters in length, and they cannot contain spaces.

- Note: This username also becomes the first part of the individual's email address (<username>@<yourdomain.com>), but you do not need to type the @ symbol or domain name in this field.

5. In the Fullname field, enter the user’s first and last names. Names can be up to 40 alphanumeric characters in length, and they can contain spaces.

6. In the Password field, enter the password the user will use to log on. Passwords are case sensitive, cannot contain spaces, and have to be at least one character in length. Allowed characters include: a-zA-Z 0-9 , . - _ / + $ ~ : % @ !

7. In the Confirm Password field, enter the password again.

8. In the Disk Quota field, enter the amount of disk space, in megabytes, you want to reserve for the user. To allow an unlimited amount of disk space, type 0 (zero). To determine how much disk space is available on your site, check the Configuration page.

9. Note: Be aware that disk quotas are not supported on NFS-mounted servers. If you know your site is on an NFS-mounted server, or if you receive an error in this field when adding an account, type 0 (zero) in this field.
   To determine whether your site is on an NFS-mounted server, contact your service provider.

9. Optional: enable the user's access to any of the following services:

1. If Telnet is available to your site, you can select the Telnet check box to allow the user to connect remotely to your site's server using a Telnet connection. Through this connection, users who are comfortable using a UNIX shell environment can log on to your site and search, copy, run scripts, and perform other tasks. To prevent Telnet access, leave the check box blank.

2. If you want to enable CGI cupport for the subdomain, select the CGI checkbox. The CGI scripts will be placed in the cgi-bin directory located under the subdomain directory.
   For example, assuming that,
   sales is the subdomain
   example.com is the site on which the subdomain is hosted
   myname is the subdomain user
   the cgi-bin directory will be located at /home/myname/example/sales/cgi-bin/

3. If SSH (Secure Shell) is available to your site, you can select the SSH Secure Shell check box to allow the user to connect remotely to the server using an SSH connection. SSH provides a secure connection through which users who are comfortable using a UNIX shell environment can log on to your site to search, copy, run scripts, and perform other tasks. To prevent SSH access, leave the check box blank.

4. If FTP is available to your site, you can select the FTP check box to allow the user to use FTP, File Transfer Protocol, to transfer files between their computer and your site. This service is especially useful for individuals who need to upload content to your site and who are not using Microsoft FrontPage to publish content. To prevent FTP access, leave the check box blank.

10. Click Add. The user account is added.

Be sure to notify the user that the account is ready and briefly explain how to access the account. You might want to provide instructions for accessing services you enabled in addition to providing the login information.

Login information includes:

- The URL of the User Administrator control panel: http://<yourdomain.com>/user

- The user name and password you created for the account

- The user's email address: <user_name>@<yourdomain.com>

- SquirrelMail login information: <user_name>@<yourdomain.com>

- Telnet login information

On a Name-based site:

<user_name>@<domain_name.com>

or

<user_name>#<domain_name.com>

On an IP-based site:

<user_name>

- SSH access information

On a name-based domain type:

<user_name>@<domain_name.com>

or

<user_name>#<domain_name.com>

where <user_name> is the User Administrator user name and <<domain_name.com> is the domain name of your site.

On an IP-based domain type:

<user_name>

where <user_name> is the User Administrator user name.

10. FTP login information

On a name-based site:

<user_name>@<domain_name.com>

or

<user_name>#<domain_name.com>

On an IP-based site:

<user_name>

- Anonymous FTP login information

On a name-based site

anonymous@<domain_name.com>

or

anonymous#<domain_name.com>

or

ftp@<domain_name.com>

or

ftp#<domain_name.com>
On an IP-based site

anonymous or ftp

where <user_name> is the user name you created for the user and <yourdomain.com> is the domain name of your site.