Adding SSH User

You will not able to do this with WHM/Cpanel as its designed for hosting web site.

To add a new user, login to SSH and use adduser command. For help use "man adduser"

# adduser USERNAME-HERE
# Passwd USERNAME-HERE

Will do it on Linux.

 

--->>would only allow the person to login via ssh and not login with cpanel

So is it that, you wanted to login to this username's cpanel? Otherwise why do you need to make a cpanel account? It could be easily done as per flashweb said.

David

 

To expand on this a bit

If you add a user using the above commands on linux the user will have a workspace created at /home/USERNAME-HERE and will log in to this path when they access via ssh.

as in

useradd foo
passwd foo

will login to /home/foo

 

i've done the following commands as the "root" user.

adduser vent
passwd vent (then when prompted, put in a password for the user)

it makes /home/vent

but the user is unable to login.

 

Are you sure they are using the correct ssh port?
Perhaps you should try logging in it yourself with their login and password.