Create User

How to get here

This page is used to add a new user to the current host.

• Username. Enter the username for this user. The username is provided to authenticate with the server.
• Password. Enter a password for this user.
• Confirm password. Re-enter the password for this user.
• SSH user key. SSH user host keys are one of the methods used by SSH listeners to authenticate users. Click Select to select, import or create an SSH user host key. To clear the selected key, click Clear. 
• Full name. Enter the full name of the user if desired.
• User type. Select a user type.  
  • Regular. Select this option to make this user a regular user.
  • Anonymous. Select this option to designate this user as an anonymous user.
  • Host administrator. Select this option to grant this user host administrator privileges. Host administrators have full permissions to all folders on the host and can manage the host through the Ipswitch Web Admin.
  • System administrator. Select this option to grant this user system administrator privileges. System administrators have full permissions to all folders on the hosts and can manage all aspects of all hosts through the Ipswitch Web Admin.
• Disable login. Select this option to disable this user account.  If this option is selected, this user cannot log in to the server.
• User can change password. Select this option to allow this user to change his or her password. This option is not available on hosts that use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Active Directory or Ipswitch IMail user databases.
• Require user to change password every x number of days. When this option is selected, users are required to change their password at least once during the time frame specified. If a user fails to change his password during the allotted time, he cannot authenticate to the server.  If this option is selected, the number of days remaining before this user must change his password is listed below this field. This option is only available if User can change password is enabled.
• Home folder. Select whether you want this user's home folder to be created in the default location or a custom location.  If you select Custom, enter the full path to the folder or click Browse to locate it.
• Lock user to home folder. Select this option to prevent this user from navigating outside their home folder.
• Account creation date. Today's date is displayed.
• Account expiration option. This option is used to specify when and how a user account should expire.
  • Never expire. Select this option if you do not want the user account to expire.
  • Expire on the expiration date. This option expires the account on the specified date.
  • Expire account on. If you have selected Expire on the expiration date, a date field appears here. Using the calendar (), select the date after which you want this account to expire.