ACE Manual

Using the Users Manager

The Users Manager, pictured at right, is used for managing a Virtual Server's FTP and POP users. This manager allows you to view, add, modify, and remove users.

When the users manager first appears, it displays a table listing every user on your Virtual Server. Each row in the table represents a different user. Moving from left to right, the columns display the user's login id, home directory, email quota, and ftp quota.

Below the table are three buttons which allow you to perform operations on the users in the table.

Adding a user

To add a user simply click on the button, "ADD". This action brings up the dialog pictured to the right. You should provide the following information about the new user in this dialog:

• login name
• real name
• password
• FTP and E-mail privileges and quotas
• path to new user's home directory

As with the login window, the password fields only display a "*" for each character you type. You are asked to type the password twice to make sure that no typing mistakes are made.

With E-mail and FTP privileges, there should be a check mark in the field corresponding to each service for which the user should have access. You can also enter quotas to limit how much server space each user can consume. If you enter a zero, then no quota will be imposed upon the user for that particular service.

After this information is entered into the Add User dialog, the user is actually added to the Virtual Server by clicking on the "Add" button. Clicking on the "Cancel" button will dismiss the window without propagating any changes to your Virtual Server.

Modifying a user

To modify a user either double-click on a user's row in the table or select a user and then click on the "Modify" button. This action causes a Modify User dialog, shown at right, to appear. This dialog requires similar information as the Add User dialog as described above. Changes are made by editing the information in the dialog and then clicking on the "OK" button. As with the Add User dialog, changes are ignored and the dialog is dismissed by clicking on the "Cancel" button.

Note: The modify action is actually accomplished on your Virtual Server by first removing the old user and the adding the new, modified user. Data in the user's directory and mailbox will not be destroyed, but if you change the user's login name, the old login information may not be available to the user even though it exists on the server. Because of this, you should be extremely careful about changing the login name of a user.

Removing a user

To remove a user, select the user and click on the "REMOVE" button. The dialog shown below appears asking you if you want to delete the selected user. Clicking on the "OK" button causes ACE to remove the user. Clicking on the "Cancel" button causes ACE to abandon this action, and leaves the user on your Virtual Server.

Removal of a user is not a reversible operation. Be careful because if you make a mistake, you will have to use the add user functionality to start over from scratch.

Note: Removing a user does not remove any of the files associated with that user. You still must manually delete any of the user's web pages, personal files, and mailboxes that are on the server. You can use the file manager to delete unwanted files.

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