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title: User accounts
description: Managing user accounts and their permissions on a Futrou v1 Serverlet.
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## User accounts

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

![User accounts in Futrou v1](/img/docs/v1/users_en.png)

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.