general question

[davestacey]

instead of giving my customers access to cpanel, is it possible to take 2 cpanel features and intergrate them into an admin area?

www.domain.com/admin

The 2 options i would like to intergrate into the admin area are: email & stats



any ideas how i could achieve this please?

Thanks
Dave

[AndyReed]

You have the option of giving your clients access to the CPanel with email only. If you need to add more, then you have to create your own theme.

[antodeepak]

Hi buddy,

You can make your clients view the webstats without login into the cpanel. You can configure it with the following steps.

The following commands help to access the webalizer without login the Cpanel
cd /home/username/www
ln -s ../tmp/webalizer stats
chown username.username stats
cd ../tmp
chmod 755 ./
chmod 755 ./webalizer

will allow domain.com/stats/ for viewing stats without logging in to cpanel

But I am not much condident in answering the "email" qst as I didn't understand what you are asking for...

Thanks & Regards,
Anto

[fikse]

have you tried using the feature manager? you can create groups of accounts and restrict which options show up inside their control panel....


"The feature manager allows you to disable/enable features inside of each users cPanel. Once you build a feature list you should edit the package you wish to assign it to and add the feature list. "

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[davestacey]

Many thanks for your replies!

antodeepak has hit the nail on the head, i want to show my customers webstats without logging in to cpanel. so his resolution should take care of that.

and for the email question i had, its the same question as the stats one.


can i offer my customers the chance to add/remove email accounts without logging in to cpanel? via a seperate admin (e.g: is there a script or something that will connect to cpanel [using a configure.php or something] and then allow customers to add/remove email accounts / forwarders)

is it the same sort of method as the stats method?



p.s: i have created a complex admin area for my customers, using php/SQL, and have been developing it for a year now, the last thing to add to it is email function and web stats. Thats why i dont want to use cpanel.

[antodeepak]

Hi buddy,

Seems that we can work out the issue with email. But Have to investigate a further for that. You can wirte a script that helps for adding a pop account and can integrate it with the php/sql script. But there will be a issue. You have to particularly assign the quota for email accounts with the script. Hope you got me. Please try to check out with writing a script. If you get any thread with that, please update with the posting. So that It will be helpful everybody.

Thanks for your care and support.

Anto

[dave9000]

i have a script that manages cpanel mail accounts and quotas using a database table and php web pages

its a rough script but it works for what i need
I run it on a cronjob and it removes and rewrites the auth files for the e-mail accounts on a set schedule

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use Crypt:ES;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database:<hostname>", "dbuser", "dbpassword");

my $passwd="/home/<accountname>/etc/<domainname>/passwd";
my $shadow="/home/<accountname>/etc/<domainname>/shadow";
my $quota="/home/<accountname>/etc/<domainname>/quota";

sub encrypt_password
{
my $unencrypted_string = shift @_;
my @salt_chars = ('a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9');
my $salt = "\$1\$" . $salt_chars[rand(63)] . $salt_chars[rand(63)] . "\$";
return crypt($unencrypted_string, $salt);
}


my $sql_email = <<ENDSQL;
select email,password from database order by email
ENDSQL
my $sth_email = $dbh->prepare($sql_email);


open(DAT,">$passwd") || die("Cannot Open File");
close(DAT);
open(DAT,">$shadow") || die("Cannot Open File");
close(DAT);
open(DAT,">$quota") || die("Cannot Open File");
close(DAT);

$sth_email->execute();
while ($hash = $sth_email->fetchrow_hashref)
{
$email = $hash->{email};
$pass = $hash->{password};
my $crypt = &encrypt_password($pass);
open(DAT,">>$passwd") || die("Cannot Open File");
print DAT "${email}:x:32046:32047::/home/<accountname>/mail/<domainname>/${email}:/usr/local/cpanel/bin/noshell\n";
close(DAT);

open(DET,">>$shadow") || die("Cannot Open File");
print DET "${email}:${crypt}:::::::\n";
close(DET);

open(DQT,">>$quota") || die("Cannot Open File");
print DQT "${email}:10485760\n";
close(DQT);
}

$dbh->disconnect;

$cnt = chown 32046,12,'${passwd}','${shadow}','${quota}';
chown $uid, $gid, @filenames;

[emechanic]

webignition wrote up a tutorial on how to write scripts for remote access. its pretty good and should fit the bill on how to setup functions in a seperate area(different controlpanel)

help if i added the address lol

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=46362