Overview
This article details the different types of users you can create to manage your DreamHost account, website, and cloud services.
Account users
Website content users
- Website users (SFTP and SSH users)
- Email users
- MySQL users
- Stats users
- Application users
- Remixer users
- Google Workspace users
Server users
Cloud users
Resetting passwords
See this article if you need to reset the password for any of these types of users.
Account users
Account users apply to your DreamHost account only.
WebID users (primary account owner)
This user is only used for logging into the DreamHost Control Panel and managing your account. Web IDs are intended to represent one human being, so a Web ID can own multiple domains, website users, and cloud users.
You can also share access to any of your account's features by adding Account Privileges. Because of this, there is no reason to have more than a single WebID.
Account control panel users
These are users that can log in to the DreamHost account control panel. This can be the primary owner of the account or another user the owner has provided with credentials to log in.
Add account user
The account owner can create additional users with limited access to the account. See this article for further information.
Rename account user
You can change the name of the account user on the Manage Account page. At the top, click your account name to edit. Click the Save button when finished.
Website content users
These are different types of users that manage different aspects of your website.
Website users
A website user is the username assigned to your domain name on the server. This is the username you use to log into your server using an FTP client to upload/download files or as a Shell user. There can only be one website user assigned to a domain.
See this article for instructions on how to add a website user to the server. You can then add a domain to this user.
Email users
Email users are only used for reading and sending email using webmail or an email client. They do not have direct access to mail servers like FTP or SSH users website users.
MySQL users
MySQL users are used to connect to your database server through your website application, third-party software, or command line, however they do not have direct access to the database server via SSH.
They are created on the MySQL Databases page. Every time you create a new MySQL database with DreamHost, you'll need to assign a unique username to access it.
By default, this is set up so you can access it from any DreamHost server; but if you'd like to access your MySQL database directly from your home computer or from another server, you can add more allowable hosts (IP Addresses or hostnames) from the MySQL area of the panel.
Stats users
Stats users are created to view website statistics only. They can be created and managed on the Site Statistics page.
Application users
Application users are users assigned to any type of web application software such as WordPress. They are used to log in and manage the website.
These users are not managed by DreamHost but by the applications themselves. See this article for examples of WordPress users
Remixer
Remixer is DreamHost's custom-built site builder. The primary account owner is the user that controls each Remixer site, and at this time, it's not possible to add additional users to a Remixer site. View the Getting started with Remixer article for further details.
Google Workspace users
Google Workspace users are used to manage your domain's Google account applications and data.
Dedicated Server admin users
The Dedicated Server admin user is a special user only available on a Dedicated hosting plan. You can add a Dedicated User on the SFTP Users & Files page.
These users provide sudo access to the server to perform advanced customizations, such as installing custom scripts or making advanced PHP and Apache configuration changes.
Cloud users
These types of users apply to DreamHost's cloud services DreamObjects and DreamCompute.
DreamObjects users
DreamObjects users are created to access and manage data stored within your DreamObjects account.
DreamCompute users
DreamCompute users are used to log in to a cloud-based server instance created on the DreamCompute cloud computing service.