Linux System Administration

Setting Up a Server and Users with ISPConfig

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Managing Users and Email

One of the primary Linux system administration tasks is the management of users

and their accounts. You can do this using ISPConfig’s graphic panel.

Once you’ve set up your domains, selecting one of them from the ISP Manager sec-

tion of the toolbar will pull up the ISP Site screen shown previously in Figure 4-9.

Let’s go back and take another look at it.

The form has six tabs. The second tab from the left is called User & Email. From this

tab, you can add new users and manage existing users. When you select New, you

will see another form like the one in Figure 4-14.

Figure 4-13. Structure of a simple web site

Home page

Index.html

Web page linked from Index.html

Web page linked from Index.html

Web page linked from Index.html

Web page linked from Index.html

Navigation

menu

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Chapter 4: An Initial Internet-Ready Environment

On this form, you can enter the new user’s details and set storage space limits. A

value of –1 provides unlimited space, but you can manage the quotas in any way you

prefer.

On the Advanced Settings tab (Figure 4-15), you can use the forwarding option to

allow email sent to the user to be forwarded on to another address. In other words, if

the user already has a primary email address that he wishes to use, you