Virtual Private Server User Guide

User and Group Management

Group  

Description 

Commands 

Files / Directories 

sysadmin 

Users in the sysadmin group 

vadduser 

are empowered to perform 

vlistuser 

general system administration 

vrmuser 

on your server including user 

vuserpriv 

and process management, 

vedquota 

and management of the 

vpasswd 

filesystem as a whole. 

vchmod 

Sysadmins can also enable 

vchown 

and disable network services 

vrm 

that run from inetd.  

vkill 

vls 

inetctl 

Webadmin 

Users in the Webadmin group 

apachectl 

/www/conf/httpd.conf 

are empowered to start, stop, 

apxs 

/www/conf/defaults.conf

and manage the Apache Web 

vaddvhost 

/www/conf/vhosts.conf 

server. They are able to add 

/www/conf/mime.types

virtual hosts and Apache 

modules and edit the Web 

configuration files, but do 

NOT have access to the main 

Web server logs. 

ftpadmin 

Users in the ftpadmin group 

 /var/home/ftp/ 

are allowed to place files in 

the ftp root directory, making 

files available for download 

via anonymous FTP. They 

can also create welcome 

messages that are displayed 

to anonymous FTP users. 

mailadmin 

Users in the mailadmin group 

mailctl /etc/mail/aliases 

can start and stop your mail 

/etc/mail/virtusertable 

service, and edit the 

/etc/mail/access 

configuration files related to 

/etc/mail/catchall 

your Sendmail server. 

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf 

/etc/mail/local mail hosts

pkgadmin 

Users in the pkgadmin group 

vinstall  

can install applications from 

our Software Application 

Library, and remove or 

reinstall packages that have 

been previously installed on 

your system. 

Each of the above super commands is described in more detail in other sections of this guide.

Technical Training Department

August 2004

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