Novice Question - User Creation

[mwfitzpatrick]

Hello,

I am a bit confused and was hoping someone might be able to help me out...if this is the wrong forum, please let me know so I can repost in a more appropriate section....

I am very new to not only direct admin but the whole linux, apache, mySQL arena. My ISP was offering server packages where they essentially rent you the hardware and provide the pipe to the internet but you administer your own server via direct admin, needless to say there is more to learn than I bargained for.

Now the issue:
<Background>
I was given a root account and an admin account by the ISP when the server was brought online. From here I created a domain (while logged in as the admin account in DA) we'll call it 'mydomain.com' by using the access level navagation (on the enhance skin) to drill into the user level. I then was able to bring up my website and play with my name servers, etc. all while logged in as admin then navagating down to the user level. It may be important to note that 'mydomain.com' is the only domain on the server and will always be the only domaion on the server.

<Problem>
since I have no other users I only can login as the admin account, and I now must provide access to my bosses and other company personnel, but I need to give them user accounts pointing to 'mydomain.com'. I seemingly cannot create user accounts with out creating a reseller package, but even once I did that I still was unable to create a user and 'link' them to 'mydomain.com' as I am prompted that the domain already exists. I am thinking that perhaps there is another 'user' type that the end user themselves can create but I really don't know.

<Question>
How do I create new user level user accounts pointing to 'mydomain.com' so the people necessary can have the proper access to our website and ftp?

If I can provide any additional information on this scenario please let me know. Thanks for any and all help.

Mike

 

[vandal]

Hey,

what you should have done is log in as admin (into direct admin) click on "Reseller Level" on the right. There you can create packages so that you can setup seperate users per domain. Under there you can add a user and they will be seperate from all your other users so they can access only their data.

There is a da usertool (search the forum for this 3rd party plugin) that may assist you in moving normal accounts.

Also this might help you as well:http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=58

so you can't "point" these users really, although you could setup custom FTP accounts from the control panel so they can only ftp their data up, but if you want everything seperated you need to create them as their own users.

 

[nobaloney]

Vandal,

You missed that he has only one domain and wants multiple users for that domain.

Mike,

Do you want multiple users each to be able to manage the site? Or to create their own sites and/or subdomains?

If the latter you'll have to set them up as separate users with separate domains. (You can set up a new site and type in the name of the subdomain, so it'll really be a separate site on DA but will look like a subdomain to the world.

The former?

You can't really do that under DirectAdmin as with DirectAdmin the user is at the top level, and the domain under the user.

The Cobalt RaQ allowed you to do it (for example) because the domain was at the top level and the users under the domain.

You might be able to do it setting up ftp users and pointing them to the site's httpd root, but you'll have to figure out an ownership/permission scheme that will work for you and make the changes manually.

Jeff