Adding yourself as a user

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If you want to access the User Administrator control panel to manage your own user-level email account, you need to add yourself as a user to the site.

To add yourself as a user:

1. In the shortcuts area of the Home page, click Add User (Users section). The Add User form opens.

2. In the Username field, enter the name you want to type when you log on to the User Administrator control panel. User names can be up to 40 alphanumeric characters in length, and they cannot contain spaces.

3. Note: The user name entered here also becomes the first part of your email address, for example <username>@<example.com>, but you do not need to type the @ symbol and site name in this field.

3. In the Fullname field, enter your first and last names. Names in this field can be up to 40 alphanumeric characters in length, and they can contain spaces.

4. In the Password field, enter the password you want to 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 , . - _ / + $ ~ : % @ !

5. In the Confirm Password field, retype the password.

6. In the Disk Quota field, enter the amount of disk space, in megabytes, you want to reserve for yourself. 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.

7. 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.

7. Optional: enable access to any of the following services:

8. Note: Your Site Administrator account enables you to log on to all of the services available to your site. If you enable these services for your User Administrator account as well, you can use either account to log in to these services.

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

2. If SSH (Secure Shell) is available to your site, you can select the SSH Secure Shell check box so you can connect remotely to your site 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.

3. If Telnet is available to your site, you can select the Telnet check box so you can connect remotely to your site using a Telnet connection. If you are comfortable using a UNIX shell environment, you can log on to your site through Telnet to search, copy, run scripts, and perform other tasks. To prevent Telnet access, leave the check box blank.

8. Optional: If subdomains are enabled for your site, you can upload Web site content to a subdomain. To add yourself as a user of the subdomain, check the Create a user subdomain checkbox.

9. Note: A user subdomain is a subdomain with the same name as the user being added.
   For example, if you are adding a user, Bob, to your site, mysite.com, and if you select the Create a User Subdomain checkbox, then a subdomain 'bob' will be created. The subdomain can be accessed as http://bob.mysite.com.
   
   For user subdomains, the web content directory defaults to the public_html directory of the user. Thus, the content for the subdomain, bob, will be placed in the directory /home/bob/public_html/.  
   
   If you want to upload your subdomain content to a directory other than the public_html directory, then you must first add yourself as a user without selecting the Create a User Subdomain checkbox, and then use the Subdomain Manager to add a new subdomain, and choose yourself as the owner.

If you enable this option, you need to provide this additional information:

1. In the CGI Support field, select an appropriate CGI script A small program written in a language such as Perl, TCL, C, or C++ that functions between HTML pages and other programs on Web servers. A CGI script might allow search data to be entered on a Web page and sent to a database management system for lookup, then formatted and returned to a user as results. option.

    The options are as follows:

• None - You cannot run CGI scripts on your subdomain.

7. Only in ScriptAlias - CGI scripts are, by default, placed in the /cgi-bin/ directory. Selecting the ScriptAlias option allows you to override this default and place them in a folder within the local file system of the site. This folder is called an alias folder.
   For example, if a cgi script is placed in the alias folder /usr/Web/cgi-bin/ instead of the default /cgi-bin/, then a request for http://myscript/cgi-bin/search runs the script from the alias folder /usr/Web/cgi-bin/search instead of from the root folder /cgi-bin/search.

8. In the CGI-BIN directory - You can place CGI scripts in the default CGI-BIN directory (outside the subdomain folder), /cgi-bin/.

2. In the CGI Script Extensions field, enter the extension of the application (pl, php) that can be used to write CGI scripts for the subdomain.  

3. Note: The value in this field depends on the type of CGI support enabled for the subdomain in step 8(a).
   
   Default values are set for:
   
   None - No script support.
   Only in ScriptAlias - ALL (any script placed in the ScriptAlias directory will be executed)
   If you choose In the CGI-BIN directory, you must specify the scripts that you want executed, say php, pl.  

9. Click Add.

Your user account is added. Your account and service login information is listed below. Learn more about accessing services.

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

• The user name and password you created for the account

• The email address: <user_name>@<example.com>

• SquirrelMail login information: <user_name>@<example.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 site type:

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

On an IP-based site type:
<user_name>
where <user_name> is your User Administrator user name.

• 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 your user name and <example.com> is the site name of your site.

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Adding accounts for other users