User accounts

User accounts

Every Serverlet can have up to 100 user accounts. For security reasons it is not possible to have root user permissions.

The main user is applet, which is created as soon as the Serverlet is set up. It owns the permissions to the /srv directory, and all applications managed by runit run under this user.

First login

Before the first login you need to set a password for the applet user. You set it in the administration on the Users card of the Serverlet.

Managing users

You manage user accounts in the administration on the Users card: it lists them and lets you create, change, and delete users. Managing users from the Serverlet command line is not possible.

When adding a user, choose a username, a directory, and a password. The directory is the user’s home directory; if it does not exist, it is created automatically.

User permissions

A user gets all the permissions they need to their home directory and its subdirectories. They have no write permission to other directories, apart from those with 777 permissions, but reading and execution are possible. If a user should not read a particular directory, set its permissions to 700. Use the chmod and chown commands for that.

Deleting and restricting a user

You can delete a user in the administration. Deleting a user does not delete their home directory. The same username and directory can be reused later, but a user with the same UID and GID cannot be added again.

Chrooting a user, that is restricting them to their home directory only or to SFTP only, is not possible.