Using iRoot: vadduser Wizard

The vadduser Wizard is a web interface to the command line program "vadduser". The vadduser Wizard is no different than its command line counterpart. The wizard will prompt you for a Email/FTP Username, an Email/FTP Password, Full Name, and information about FTP privileges. Upon confirmation, the new POP account is added to your Virtual Server's "~/etc/passwd" file.

Flowchart of the vadduser Wizard

vadduser Wizard - Username

Email/FTP User Names are up to 8 characters and consist of upper or lower case alphabetic characters or digits. They must start with an alphabetic character and should generally be all lower case.

  • Email/FTP Username:

vadduser Wizard - Password

Now, enter a password for this user's Email/FTP account. For security reasons you may want to use a password that is longer than 6 characters and that has at least one non alphabetic character and/or unusual capitalization.

  • Email/FTP Password:

    Confirm Email/FTP Password:

     

vadduser Wizard - Full Name

Now, enter the Email/FTP User's full name. Please use less than 80 characters and do not use the colon ':' character.

  • Full Name:

     

vadduser Wizard - FTP Privileges

Do you want "Biff User" to have FTP access to your virtual server (assuming that you have the FTP service with your account)? Please answer "yes" or "no". If you are planning to add the FTP service to your account later and want this user to have FTP access you can answer "yes" now.

  • FTP Privileges:
    yes     no

     

vadduser Wizard - Home Directory

You have three choices on where to put the home directory for "Biff User". Pick 2 if you want "Biff User" to be able to upload his or her own web pages (the URL would be something like http://www.littletechshoppe.com/biff/). Pick 3 if you want "Biff User" to be able to upload files to your anonymous FTP archive (ftp://www.littletechshoppe.com/testing/). Otherwise, pick 1.

  • Home Directory Option:
          /usr/home/biff
          /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/biff
          /ftp/pub/biff

     

vadduser Wizard - FTP Quota

Enter a disk limit (in MB) for "Biff User". Your user will not be allowed to store more than this amount of data on your Virtual Server.

  • FTP Quota:

     

vadduser Wizard - Confirm

Select the "Add User" button to confirm the addition of the new user, "Biff User".

 

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