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Managed Users

WebCom Managed Users makes it possible for you to allow another person to develop and/or maintain a part of your Web site or WebCom account via FTP. A separate userid and password can be setup which allow either read-only or full write and upload privileges to a restricted portion of your account. This page describes how to use this feature with your own WebCom account.


How Managed Users Works

Managed Users ("MU") are users who have limited access to your WebCom account. The areas of the account which the MU is allowed to access are setup and controlled by you, using the Managed Users configuration form. MUs are given unique login names, of the form userid-muserid, where userid is the master user name for the WebCom account, and muserid is an eight character (or fewer) name identifying the MU. For instance, if your WebCom userid is rocky and you wanted an associate to have the ability to upload new Web pages to a section of your site, you could set her up as a Managed User with the username of bullwnkl and a unique password. She would then be able to login via FTP with the username of rocky-bullwnkl and her password, and would be able to maintain the designated section of your Web site.

This new MU userid is linked to the directory in your account that you specify. An MU can have either read only access or full write access, giving the MU the ability to add and delete files and directories within their base directory. However, access is not granted to any parent directories.


Managed Users Configuration Form

Setting up and altering Managed Users is done with one simple form. On the form you will find the following elements:

User Name
This is the name which will be the second part of the login name your MU will use. For instance, "bullwnkl" would be entered here to create the example rocky:bullwnkl or rocky-bullwnkl user name above.

Password
Enter the password here which will be used by the MU to log in.

Read Only
Check this box if you want the MU to be able to read, but not change, the material in their directory.

Select Home Directory
This is a list box containing all of the directories in your account. Simply click on the directory you wish to be the "home" directory of the MU. If you wish to specify a directory which does not yet exist, you will have to create it first, then return to this form to select it.

Create User
Click on this button to initiate the the MU settings.


Setting Up Managed Users To setup a new Managed User:
  1. Login to your account from our homepage
  2. Select Managed Users from the Control Panel
  3. Choose Add a Managed User
  4. Fill out the Managed User configuration form as outlined above.

Changing Managed User Settings
  1. Login to your account from our homepage
  2. Select Managed Users from the Control Panel
  3. Choose Modify a Managed User
  4. Change the values on the Managed User configuration form to reflect the changes, as outlined above.

Removing Managed Users
  1. Login to your account from our homepage
  2. Select Managed Users from the Control Panel
  3. Choose Delete a Managed User
  4. Select the Managed User you would like to delete and click on Delete User

Security Concerns

With the Managed User system, you have the ability to grant MU access to your form directory, where form configuration files are kept. Since form configuration files have the ability to read and write data to any part of the account, granting access to the form directory essentially gives a MU full access to the account.

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