At times, it may be necessary to give others access to SiteWorx so that they may assist you in the management of your website/domain. To make this process less difficult, SiteWorx provides a comprehensive User Account Management facility that allows you to create extra SiteWorx accounts while only giving the account holders access to the areas of SiteWorx that you wish. For example, it is possible to create a user account that only allows the user to access your domain's statistics.

To access the User Account Management facility, you may click on the User Accounts link in the Left Control Panel menu, as illustrated below:

The result of clicking on this is the User Account Management Screen, similar to that depicted below:

Creating User Accounts

We may add any number of User accounts, up to the limit (if any) of User accounts assigned to our SiteWorx account.

There is always at least one user account on your server, termed the Master Account. This account, which cannot be deleted, has full access to all SiteWorx features on your domain. Any additional accounts that you create are termed Slave Accounts, and, as previously mentioned, can vary in access restrictions.

1. We will begin by creating an account with the username "Ally." We must enter appropriate information for this account (name, e-mail address, password) into the relevant input boxes of the Add a User sub-window:

   

2. To create the account, we click on the Add button:

   

3. You will now be presented with an additional screen. On this screen are access-control options for the account you are creating. If you wish to give the user full access to all SiteWorx features on your domain, you may click on the text (check all). Otherwise, you may select which features you wish the new user to have access to:

   

4. We will provide Ally with access to all options, except for FTP Accounts, Preferences and Users:

   

5. We continue by pressing the Add button:

   

6. SiteWorx will report that our changes have taken effect:

   

Editing Existing Accounts

There are many cases when existing aspects of accounts must be edited. In the case of User Accounts, we may change account names, e-mail addresses, access restrictions, and status (active, or able to be utilized, or inactive, or unable to be utilized; useful to temporarily lock-out accounts).

1. For the sake of example, we will now edit our "Ally" account, and change various options such as the account privileges and its status (from active to inactive). To accomplish this, we must first click on the Edit button adjacent to the "Ally" account:

   

2. We are presented with a screen similar to that which we used when we created the account. Any available options may be modified:

   

3. We have left the Ally account with only a few access privileges, and have made it inactive. Inactive accounts are not able to be utilized; attempts to log-in using them will result in access to SiteWorx being denied:

   

4. So that our changes take effect, we press the Save button:

   

5. As we can see, SiteWorx both reports our success and also makes our changes take effect:

   

1. Given that we will no longer require this account, we can safely delete it. To this end, we must press the Delete button adjacent to the account we wish to delete. Also notable is that Master Account always exists; it cannot be deleted:

   

2. In order to delete "Ally," we must confirm by pressing the Delete button:

   

3. As per usual, SiteWorx reports its success:

   

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