Virtual Private Server User Guide

User and Group Management

Other information:

Note that the Superuser is able to set Change and Expire settings for the user s 

password. The Change setting notifies the user that the password is about to 

expire. The user will then have until the date set in the Expire setting to change 

the user account password. 

The Change and Expire dates can be entered in either of the following formats:

4 1 2001

April 1, 2001

Remember to use the full four digit value for the year. 

Note: The Login, Uid and Gid are created at the time the 

account is set up and are an integral part of the user privileging 

system. The password that appears here is encrypted and 

should only be updated via the vpasswd command. Attempts to 

alter any of these four settings via chsh may cause irreparable 

damage to the user account. The Superuser has the ability to 

change the Uid and Gid of a user to the same values assigned to 

another user. This is generally considered poor practice, and 

care should be exercised not to do this, as it can lead to 

confusion and security issues.

Listing Users

You can list all users on your VPS server by issuing the vlistuser command, as 

shown below:

> vlistuser

Username Full Name 

 FTP  Shell Samba 

root 

Superuser 

 YES    YES   YES 

admin 

admin   

 YES    YES   YES 

joe  

Joe User 

 YES     NO    NO 

malone 

The Mailman  

  NO     NO    NO 

rusty 

Trusty Rusty 

 YES    YES   YES 

The above example displays users with various types of accounts, including e 

mail only (malone), e mail/FTP (joe), and e mail/FTP/Shell (all others). Trusted 

users can be added to the special privilege groups as described in the Assigning 

User Privileges section.

Technical Training Department

August 2004

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