Setting Up Users

As a site administrator, you are allowed to add sub-users under your account.  You can give the users Telnet access, FrontPage accounts, and even an equivocal site-admin account (they can then add/remove any user, including you, so be careful!).  Adding users is simple.  First, login to www.yourdomain.com/siteadmin/.  The user administration screen will load.  Any users currently under your domain, including you the site admin, are listed.  Beside each user there are three icons.

This changes user password, name, disk quota, and other misc. options.
This sets up email options, including autoresponders and mail forwarding.
This removes the user and all of their e-mail and files.

To add a user, select .  Enter the user's full name.  A default username value will automatically be entered in the user name section.  You can change this at will.  Some usernames may not be available.  For example, sales, support, and webmaster are commonly used on a server and users are "server-wide" so no two domains on one server can have the exact same user.  This is where the Alias section comes in.  A username may need to be mysales rather than mailto:sales@menumerchant.com . In the alias section, however, you can enter any e-mail aliases for this account that you want.  For example, say that you want to an email account to get mail for sales, accounting, and billing @yourname.com.  In the username, you can enter your name or a "role account" name.  E.G. mysales or acmeadmin.  Then, in the aliases section you would enter sales, accounting, and billing, each on its own line.  Mail to sales@domain.com, accounting@domain.com, and billing@domain.com will all sort into the "mysales" account!
It's Easy! Once you get in the control panel, you'll see how simple it is.

Users receive THEIR OWN Directory for files:

Let us say your set up a USER named webworker. When you set this user up, you also set up the amount of DISC SPACE you are offering and a password. When users WEBWORKER decides to ftp to the account, the first DIRECTORY will be the MAIN directory:

/web

they will see

cgi-public
images
stats
throttle-status

What the user can do, is select the "web" in the Address bar of the FTP client (TOP) and LEFT CLICK and HIGHLIGHT"

" web  "

the RIGHT CLICK THE MOUSE and SELECT CUT and click ENTER on their keyboard

and the user WEBWORKER will be in the

/

ROOT of your account

They will see

certs
ftp
logs
throttle-status
users
web
images
stats
throttle-status

They will CLICK USERS

USERS

they will see

WEBWORKER (or whatever their USER NAME IS)

THEY CLICK

WEBWORKER (or whatever their USER NAME IS)

And this is WHERE they place THEIR pages.

the url for anyuser YOU desire to share space with would be:

http://www.Your_Domain.com/~webworker/

or whatever THEIR user name is.

E-mail and the Interface

To setup email forwarders, mailing lists, and autoresponders, first login to www.yourdomain.com/siteadmin/.

• Adding a mail forwarder: First add the desired username.  If the username is not available, use a derivative of it and create the desired username as an alias.  Once the user is displaying at the user-list screen, click the beside the account.   Enter the desired forwarding address and you may also select the optional auto-response.
• Catch-all mail in one account: To catch mail for *@domain.com (ANYTHING@domain.com) simply add the alias "@domain.com" when adding the user.  Aliases may be edited using the icon.
• Mailing Lists: To add a mailing list, hit List Management on the left hand side of the screen.  Then select and then fill in the information when prompted.   Each list should handle about 500 members easily.
• Autoresponders: Autoresponders are setup by first selecting then entering the auto-responder nane as the username OR alias and then once added selecting the icon and checking the Autoresponse section.  It is that simple!

Disk & Web Usage Reports

To get disk and web usage reports, simply enter www.yourdomain.com/siteadmin/ and then select the utility's using the buttons on the left-hand side of your screen once you log in.  For more detailed stats, goto www.yourdomain.com/stats

Individual User Control Panel

Each user, regardless of whether they are siteadmin or not, has access to http://www.yourname.com/personal/  This URL should be given to each of your users.  The /personal/ control panel allows Disk Usage graphs to be displayed, password to be changed, and most importantly e-mail functions to be modified.  With traditional POP/FTP/Telnet accounts, your sub-users would have to know arcane UNIX commands in telnet to harness the capabilities offered.  

E-mail functions available to each user:

• Add / Change / Remove forwarding address.  This sets where e-mail to user@domain.com is forwarded to.  Users can disable email forwarding at any time by simply entering a blank value.
• Vacation Reply.  Allows users to setup an automatic message to return to senders notifying them that the user is away from e-mail.  Also can be used as an autoresponder!