Virtual Private Server User Guide

User and Group Management

Granting User Privileges Through Groups

Users can be granted special privileges by making them members of special user 

groups. This can be done either through command line or by using the VAdmin 

Web interface. This section focuses on granting user privileges from the 

command line. For instructions on granting user privileges through the VAdmin 

Web interface, please refer to the 

VAdmin User Guide

.

The vuserpriv command allows you to give special abilities to a user by adding 

them to one of more of the special user groups. 

Warning! For security reasons, you should never add a user to any 

of the special user groups unless you trust them completely. 

Members of any of the special user groups have the potential to 

cause a large amount of damage to your server, whether by 

malicious intent or sheer negligence.

Example: Adding a user to a special privilege group

In the following example, a user named  rusty  is added to a special privilege 

group via the vuserpriv super command:

> vuserpriv

1) Webadmin

2) ftpadmin

3) mailadmin

4) sysadmin

5) pkgadmin

v) virtual host groups

x) Exit

Please pick a type of user to add, or select  x  to exit: 

4

The following users are in sysadmin:

mainuser

1) Add a user to this group

2) Delete a user from this group

3) Return

Please pick an action: 

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