End user panel

[prophecy]

Is there anything that an end user can use to login and change password or email forwarding or vacation response? Like the cobalt admin? Or is the lowest level the site admin?

And if this isn't available, is it planned?

[Two_A_T]

There are already 3 levels to the panel.

Admin, Reseller and User. Which level a person gets when they sign in is controlled by the level they are given when their account is created. So, an end user would have full access to THIER panel and control over email, ftp accounts, domains, etc based on what their hosting plan allows :)

Hope that helps!

[prophecy]

Ya, i understand that, but there should be one more level below user, that is "email user" so they can login and only change their own password and set their own forwarding or autoresponding.

See the 4 levels of Cobalt here:

http://www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/raq550/demo.html

Try the User Demo.

[Two_A_T]

Ok..

I understand what you're asking now :)

I mentioned the same thing in another thread here in the forums. I'd also like to see an email only section added to the panel. But, I know John already has his hands full with other more important features so I can wait :)

I'm sure it's something they plan to add in the future after they take care of the more pressing features!

[ProWebUK]

i think 1 last lower lever for subdomains aswell as emails :cool:

Chris

[prophecy]

Emails are far more important, I require this in my panel and will probably be the basis of my decision. and it is such a convenient feature for end user and site admin.

[DirectAdmin Sales]

Hello,

DirectAdmin doesn't support e-mail only users as yet -- it isn't a feature that will appear within the next 1-2 months, as there are many things taking priority over it.

Thanks!

Mark

[prophecy]

3 months? :)

Is there anyway to make something like this on our own that can tie into DirectAdmin? Or maybe you guys could hack something together really quick and have it as a hidden feature for now. The only thing you would have to have really is a new user type where when they login, they just see their email and they can go to the change pass screen, vacation modify screen or autoresponder modify screen. But I guess then you have to attach the users to a specific email which it doesn't look like you do right now. So maybe it would be something like this, when you make the email accounts, a user account gets made with the same password or something and attaches the user to that email. Then you'd be set.

[prophecy]

Back to this again, already have customers wanting the end user (ie: the email account users) to be able to change their passwords. Is there any way to do this at this point? Like even an email command or something?

[ProWebUK]

there would be no way to do it unless you made a custom skin although that would effect the whole account and users would still be able to modify other email addresses there. All you can do is wait i think.

Chris

[prophecy]

No email commands or anything hey?

[AlexA]

the ability for email users to change their password would be great -

I just had a reseller complain that it's causing "privacy issues" with some companies he's hosting for.

Even if it was just one (separate) login page that they could enter the email address and password and type a new one.

[prophecy]

Ya, no kidding. Having an admin changing passwords just isn't right.

[DirectAdmin Support]

We'll look into adding that feature in the future.

John

[hostpc.com]

I hate to ressurect an oldie like this, but is there anything that a user can do to login to the control panel and change his password without the help of the site administrator? Email Users need to be able to change their passwords ....

I might be having a brain fart, but I can't find it.

Any help, assistance would be appreciated.

Joe

[AlexA]

http://SERVER:2222/CMD_CHANGE_EMAIL_PASSWORD

[prophecy]

Sweeeeeeeeeeet. Been waiting for that for a loooong time.

[DirectAdmin Support]

You can also set it up with your own scripts through php and the api:

http://www.directadmin.com/api.html#email

John

[netmotiv8]

Any news on this, cos we have trouble brewing with our customers who want their own employees to able to change their own vacation messages.

Cant we have http://server.com:2222/CMD_CHANGE_EMAIL_VACATION to work like CMD_CHANGE_EMAIL_PASSWORD


Neil :D

[netmotiv8]

Has anyone got any further with this?

Is an end user panel gonna be included in DA soon?

Has someone created something that works?

Sure would be neat to have this feature for DA


Neil :D

[hostpc.com]

you mean like this: http://www.hostpc.com/squirrelmail

??

[netmotiv8]

I am liking that! Can you supply me with the code for that?

But I meant has anything happened regarding vacation messages etc.

Neil :-)

[jmackler]

Just want to chime in with my agreement that DA badly needs another user level that can change email passwords and then perhaps admin other email users. There should just be another level and then the ability for the reseller to delve out permissions for various tasks.

I really appreciate the DA project and the hard work that obvioulsly goes into it; keep it up team!

[hostpc.com]

In the interest of furthering DA development, I'll offer out login/change password script to anyone who's interested. This was written by us, for us. The only limitation on use is that the header must remain intact.


/**
* login.php -- simple login screen
*
* Copyright (c) 1999-2003 The SquirrelMail Project Team
* Licensed under the GNU GPL. For full terms see the file COPYING.
*
* This a simple login screen. Some housekeeping is done to clean
* cookies and find language.
*
* $Id: login.php,v 1.98.2.1 2003/07/03 20:24:47 stekkel Exp $
*
* Modified by HostPC Internet Services
* http://www.hostpc.com (c) 2004
* Permission to use this script is granted provided this header
* remains intact.
*/


http://hostpc.com/squirrelmaillogin.phps

[hostpc.com]

The above mentioned code will NOT allow the main user to change their login password - they can do that through the control panel anyway. This just changes lower level users within the domain.

An example of the script is: http://www.hostpc.com/squirrelmail

Save the file in /var/www/html/squirrelmail/src/ as login.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7357 Sep 18 08:34 login.php

Joe

Donations graciously accepted via Paypal to sales@hostpc.com to further development efforts.

[netmotiv8]

What about adding and removing vacations messages?


Neil :D

[matrixx]

Originally posted by DirectAdmin Sales
Hello,

DirectAdmin doesn't support e-mail only users as yet -- it isn't a feature that will appear within the next 1-2 months, as there are many things taking priority over it.

Thanks!

Mark

The above was quoted by DA mid last year..

@ DA Support.... is there any progress with this yet or is it still a low priority feature?

I think it opens up masses of benefits and a new market for all da hosting providers that wanted to use it! :)

Rob

[rldev]

I have to agree here. I think it is fairly important.

[Cecilia]

Ditto here for me. We need a user level for emails.

[matrixx]

The Cliomail skin here (http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2331) may be a temporary workaround so long as you get the rest of the stuff configured before you switch it to this skin.


Rob

[jlasman]

Nope.

The ClioMail skin is a userlevel skin and will show all the email users for all the domains for the site user.

Jeff

[matrixx]

I know :(

But it's the closest they can get at the moment.

Rob