XML/JSON API Function to retreive the 'Remote Access Key'

[shaun]

I would like to request a API function to be added to the WHM that would allow the 'Remote Access Key' to be fetched.

I am developing a app and rather than forcing the user to copy/paste in the WHM access key i want to give them the ability to just type in there user/pass the first time around and for the app to login, grab the hash, and store it for future use.

[bvierra]

While there is no way to get it through API you could easily use ssh and cat ~/.accesshash

[shaun]

Ya.. but that would require my app to support SSH. Alot more work to implement, less stable, and more of a security risk when passing the root password.

[rking]

If you're worried about security, you could setup SSH keys and then your app wouldn't have to store the root password at all. If you're talking about a root level app that needs the root access hash, you'd have to authenticate for the API call somehow anyways (i.e. you either need the hash already or you have to pass the root password).

If you're looking for a reseller's access hash and are having resellers authenticate with their username and password, you could FTP to their account and grab their .accesshash through FTP. Probably wouldn't be as complex as supporting SSH in your app.

But if you're going to be allowing resellers to store their hash, why not store their password instead? For security, you're going to have to encrypt either of them anyways and afaik there's little you can do with a password that you can't do with the hash.

[shaun]

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Will there be support for this?