Create a User
Follow the steps below to create a user account. The user can login to edit his account info after the account has been established. You can also choose to set an account expiration date or restrict the user from changing the account password.
To create a user:
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Click Create.
- Enter the user name, user description, email, and password.
- Check the Send a notification mail to the newly created user box, and the user will receive a mail once his account is created.
- If you have not enabled e-mail notification service before selecting the checkbox, go to
Main Menu > Control Panel > Notification > E-mail to enable e-mail notifications first. Otherwise, click Yes at the pop-up window and you will be directed to the setting page of Notification.
- If you have enabled e-mail notification service at Main Menu > Control Panel > Notification > E-mail, the checkbox will be ticked by default. You can choose not to send a notification e-mail to newly created users by uncheck it.
- By default the user account's password is not displayed in the notification email. However, if you wish to include the password in the notification message, please check the Display user password in notification mail box.
- Select the user group this user will belong to.
- Assign shared folder access privileges for the new user. Privileges priority is as follows: No access > Read/Write > Read only.
- Preview: This column displays the user’s shared folder access privileges, according to current settings and groups to which the user belongs.
- Group privileges: This column displays shared folder access privileges assigned according to the user groups to which the user belongs.
- Check the boxes under or next to Enable quota to control how much storage space of specific volumes or all volumes is used by the new user. Enter a quota value in the Quota field, and select the unit.
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Assign application privileges for this user.
- Check the boxes under or next to Enable speed limit to restrict the user's file transfer speed limit.
- Click Apply to finish.
Username limitation:
- The user name is not case sensitive and can include 1 to 64 Unicode characters, but cannot contain the following symbols:
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , / : ; < = > ? @ [ ] \ ^ ` { } | ~
- The first character cannot be a minus sign or a space, and the last character cannot be a space.
- The following user names are reserved for system use: mailer-daemon, postmaster.
- The user description can include up to 64 displayable Unicode characters.
Password limitation:
- The password is case sensitive and is limited up to 127 displayable characters, including letters, numbers, signs, and space.