Manage Team can give colleagues their own cPanel identities with selected roles and services when the feature is licensed and enabled. It is useful for delegation because you can remove one person’s access without distributing the owner’s password.
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What you need before you begin
Confirm the service offers Manage Team and decide the person’s exact responsibilities. A role grants a group of management capabilities and may be broader than one website folder. Use a separate restricted FTP account when the only need is a limited upload path.
01 Give a colleague limited cPanel access with Manage Team
- Open Manage Team as the team owner and choose Create Team User.
- Enter the user’s identity and contact information. Use the available secure password or invitation workflow and make the account recognisable in later audit records.
- Assign only the required roles, such as Email, Database or Web. Read the feature list for each role rather than assuming the name limits access to a single domain.
- Enable separate services only when needed, reviewing FTP or Web Disk directories and permissions. A team FTP service does not grant SFTP or SSH shell access.
- Set an expiry or other available restriction for temporary work. Create the user, then have them test the specific tasks they are authorised to perform.
Confirm the intended access works
The user should sign in with a separate identity, see the intended tools and complete an approved test. The owner should retain control of team administration and account recovery.
Troubleshoot unexpected results
If the feature or role capacity is unavailable, ask support about the service’s limits instead of sharing the owner password. If the user lacks a necessary feature, compare the role and provider feature list before assigning Administrator.
Can this isolate two businesses?
Team users operate within the owner’s cPanel account. They are not a substitute for separate hosting accounts when independent customers require strong account boundaries, separate quotas or unrelated ownership.