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### Allowing the Site Owner to Log in to Control Panel

To allow the site owner to log in to control panel for managing his or her web site:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Domain Administrator in the Domain group.
3. Select the Allow domain administrator's access check box.
4. Type the password for access to the site owner's control panel.

   For security reasons, the password should be more than 8 symbols, and it should comprise a combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation; dictionary words and proper names should be avoided.

5. Specify the settings related to the appearance of user's control panel, if desired: interface language, theme (skin), the limit on number of characters that can appear on custom buttons placed into the control panel by the site owner.
6. Leave the Allow multiple sessions check box selected to allow the site owner to have several simultaneous sessions in the control panel.
7. Leave the Prevent users from working with the control panel until interface screens are completely loaded check box selected.

   This will forbid users from submitting data or performing operations until the control panel is ready to accept them.

8. Specify the operations that the site owner will be able to perform in his or her control panel:
   - Physical hosting management. Allow or disallow full control of the hosting account and webspace.
   - Hard disk quota assignment. Allow or disallow the site owner to adjust the hard quota on disk space allocated to their web space.
   - Subdomains management. Allow or disallow the site owner to set up, modify and remove subdomains.
   - DNS zone management. Allow or disallow the site owner to manage the DNS zone of his or her domain. This is recommended only for experienced users.
   - Log rotation management. Allow or disallow the site owner to adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files.
   - Scheduler management. Allow or disallow the site owner to schedule tasks with the Scheduler. Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule.
   - Anonymous FTP management. Allow or disallow the site owner to have an FTP directory where all users could upload and download files without the need to enter login and password. A web site should reside on a dedicated IP address in order to use anonymous FTP.
   - FTP accounts management. Allow or disallow the site owner to create, modify and remove additional FTP accounts.
   - Java applications management. Allow or disallow the site owner to install Tomcat Java applications and applets on the web site.
   - System access management. Allow or disallow the site owner to access to the system through Remote Desktop.
   - Mailing lists management. Allow or disallow the site owner to use mailing lists.
   - Backup/restore functions. Allow or disallow the site owner to use the control panel's facilities to backup and restore their site. Scheduled and on-demand backups are supported.
   - Spam filter management. Allow or disallow the site owner to use spam filter provided by the SpamAssassin software.
   - Antivirus management. Allow or disallow the site owner to use server-side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail.
   - SiteBuilder. Allow or disallow the site owner to use SiteBuilder for creating and editing their web site.
   - Hosting Perfomance Management. Allow or disallow the site owner to change the hosting performance preferences for their domain.
   - IIS Application Pool Management. Allow or disallow the site owner to manage their IIS application pool.
   - Web statistics management. Allow or disallow the site owner to manage web statistics for their domains.
   - Additional write/modify permissions management. Allow or disallow the site owner to manage additional write/modify permissions for their domains. These permissions are required if site owner's web applications are using a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of `httpdocs` or `httpsdocs` folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the web site security.
   - User interface. Choose what type of Plesk control panel interface site owner can use - standard, desktop, or both.
   - Desktop management. Allow or disallow the site owner to customize and manage their desktop interface.
9. Specify the site owner's contact information.
10. Click OK.

Now you can tell your customer the control panel's URL, login and password. The URL is https://<user's_domain_name>:8443, where <user's_domain_name> is the domain name without the www alias. The login name that the site owner should specify in order to log in to the control panel is his or her domain name, for example, your-domain.com.