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title: Creating an SSH User
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  key: Creating an SSH User
  parent: SSH
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To connect to your account using *SSH*, you need to have a user. By default, a user with your *account* name was created with the account. You can administer your SSH users from your administration interface, **Remote access > SSH** tab.

![](images/admin-panel_ssh-users-list.png)

- Name: SSH user name prefixed with your account name (`[account]`),
- Password: the password assigned to the user. It is required for the first SSH connection; Once this is done, a [key connection](/en/docs/web-hosting/remote-access/ssh/use-keys) can then be used,
- "HOME" directory: the directory where the user finds their connection,
- [Shell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell): your user's command interpreter.

![](images/admin-panel_ssh-users-add.png)

> [!NOTE]
> Unlike FTP, SSH does not propose any isolation. Hence, users can move around freely in all of the account directories.


> [!NOTE]
> Even if this is not recommended for reasons relating to rights on folders and files, you can create as many SSH users as you wish.