How to Create a WHM Reseller Without An Associated Domain

Overview

You can create additional administrative user accounts in WHM that do not correspond to a cPanel account. This allows your employees to perform the following tasks:

  • Review bandwidth reports.
  • Reset passwords.
  • Configure mailboxes.
  • Suspend and unsuspend accounts.
  • Manage DNS entries.

Create a WHM user without an associated domain

To create a WHM reseller account without an associated domain, perform the following steps:

Note

In the steps below, username represents the desired account username

  1. Log in as the root user on the server via SSH.
  2. To create a new user, run the following command:

adduser username

To set a password for the new user, run the following command:

passwd username

The /var/cpanel/resellers file defines which users are resellers and what permissions those reseller users possess. To create an entry in the resellers file that grants the user full permissions and list the user in the WHM interface, run the following command:
Warning

The user username:all entry provides root-level permissions to the user. If you grant root-level access to a reseller, that reseller will have the same privileges as the web server’s administrator.

echo "username:all" >> /var/cpanel/resellers

Log in to WHM as the root user. Navigate to WHM's Edit Reseller Nameservers and Privileges interface (Home >> Resellers >> Edit Reseller Nameservers and Privileges). Select username from the menu. Click Submit. Select the checkboxes that correspond to the desired user permissions. Click Save.
  • WHM, cPanel, Reseller Account
  • 2 Users Found This Useful
Was this answer helpful?

Related Articles

How to Disable MySQL Strict Mode

MySQL’s, and MariaDB’s, strict mode controls how invalid or missing values in data changing...