Web Disk

Create an Additional Web Disk Account

To create an additional Web Disk account, perform the following steps:

1. Enter the desired account information in the available text boxes.
   
   • When you enter a username, you can select a domain or subdomain from the menu if your account includes more than one domain or subdomain.

2. Enter and confirm the new password in the appropriate text boxes.

   Notes:

   • The system evaluates the password that you enter on a scale of 100 points. 0 indicates a weak password, while 100 indicates a very secure password.
   • Some web hosts require a minimum password strength. A green password Strength meter indicates that the password is equal to or greater than the required password strength.
   • Click Password Generator to generate a strong password. For more information, read our Password & Security documentation.

   
   

   Important:

   The password must contain at least five characters.

3. Enter the Web Disk account's home directory in the Directory text box.
   
   

   Notes:

   • The house icon ( ) represents the cPanel account's home directory.
   • The Directory text box defines the new Web Disk account's top level of directory access, relative to the cPanel account's home directory. For example, if you enter username in the Directory text box and the cPanel account uses the /home/example home directory, the Web Disk account can access the /home/example/public_html/username/ directory and all of its subdirectories.
   • The system automatically populates this text box with public_html/username, where username represents what you entered in the Username text box.
4. Select a Permissions setting:
   • Read-Write — This setting grants this account access to all of the operations inside the directory.
   • Read-Only — This setting only grants this account access to read, download, and list the files inside the directory.

5. If you use Microsoft Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, Windows® 8, or Windows® 10, select the Enable Digest Authentication checkbox.

   Notes:

   • Do not enable Digest Authentication if the domain uses a signed SSL certificate.
   • For more information about Digest Authentication, read the Web Disk and Digest Authentication section below.
6. Click Create. A new interface will appear.
   • To return to the main interface, click Go Back.
   • To navigate to setup instructions for your new Web Disk account, click Access Web Disk.

Manage Additional Web Disk Accounts

The Manage Additional Web Disk Accounts table displays the following information for all of the additional Web Disk accounts that you create:

Web Disk and Digest Authentication

When you change the usernames of Web Disk accounts that use Digest Authentication, you must reenable it. The /etc/digestshadow file stores the usernames of Web Disk accounts that use Digest Authentication in a password hash. When you change the account username, the system removes the password from the file.