Additional FrontPage Accounts: fpseuser.exe

On a domain with FrontPage support, Plesk allows creating multiple FrontPage users in addition to FP WebAdmin created by default. The fpseuser.exe utility serves to perform create/update/delete operations against these additional FP accounts on the domain via CLI. The utility enables you to do the following:

Note: This utility and all its commands and options are available since Plesk 7.6.

Syntax

fpseuser.exe <command> [<login_name>] [

<option1><param> [<option2><param>]…[<option N><param>]

]

 

Example

The following command line creates the FPuser1 FrontPage account with the 12345 password on domain1.com and restricts the use of disk space for it to 1 MB.

>fpseuser.exe --create FPuser1 -domain domain1.com – passwd 12345 - quota 1

 

Commands

Command

Parameter

Description

Example

--create or -c

<login_name>

Creates an additional FP account with the specified login on the specified domain. The use of the -domain option is required.

To create the FPuser1 account on somewhere.com:

>fpseuser.exe --create FPuser1 -domain somewhere.com – passwd 12345

or

>fpseuser.exe -c FPuser1 -domain somewhere.com – passwd 12345

--update or -u

<login_name>

Updates the additional FP account with the specified login name.

To change the hard disk quota for FPuser2 to 1 MB:

>fpseuser.exe --update FPuser2 –quota 1

or

>fpseuser.exe -u FPuser2 –quota 1

--remove or -r

<login_name>

Removes the specified additional FP account from the system.

To remove:

>fpseuser.exe --remove FPuser1

or

>fpseuser.exe –r FPuser1

--info or -i

<login_name>

Retrieves the information about the specified account.

To retrieve the info about FPuser2:

>fpseuser.exe --info FPuser2

or

>fpseuser.exe -i FPuser2

--help or -h

 

Displays help on the use of the utility.

To see the help info on the use of this utility:

>fpseuser.exe --help

or

>fpseuser.exe -h

Options

Option

Parameter

Description

Example

-login

<login_name>

Sets the new login for a specified additional FP account.

To set the newFPuser1 login for the FPuser1:

>fpseuser.exe --update FPuser1 -login newFPuser1

-passwd

<passwd>

Sets the password for the specified additional FP account. Is required when creating an additional FP account.

To set the qqdq password for FPuser1:

>fpseuser.exe --update FPuser1 -passwd qqdq

-domain

<domain_name>

Specifies the domain a newly created additional FP account will belong to. Is required when creating an additional FP account. Is not required for other operations as the additional FP account has a unique name in the system.

To create an additional FP account on somewhere.com:

>fpseuser.exe --create FPuser3 -domain somewhere.com –passwd 12345

-quota

<MB>

Restricts the hard disk space allotted for the specified FP user account (in MB). If set to 0, means the unlimited disk space.

To restrict the use of disk space for FPuser2 to 1 MB:

>fpseuser.exe --update FPuser2 -domain - quota 1