cPanels Method for adding users

[duralinux]

I'm trying to work out how cPanel adds new users to the system because I need to restrict users from seeing other users processes (such as in top, ps, who, etc.). We're using 'jailshell' right now but that doesn't do the job. I was considering a chroot but I first need to know how cPanel does it's thing. Anyone... anyone...?

Seth

 

[nvez]

You might want to give /scripts/wwwacct a read, that is the script which is ran when cPanel is creating an account. There is also http://www.cpanel.net/docs/whm/Scripts.htm which is a small appendix of the /scripts/ directory.

 

[chirpy]

cPanel doesn't do anything special when creating the unix account during wwwacct, it's a standard entry in /etc/passwd, etc. If you want to use your own shell then you would modify it as usual in /etc/passwd and add it into /etc/shells

 

[duralinux]

Still Stuck On User Restrictions

Hey again, and thank you for the previous replies. After rtfm'ing and poking around I'm still at a loss on how to restrict access to the items I first listed. The problems seems to lie in how the users are added to the server. Each user is a member of their own group and only their group. So I can't easily use group policies to control access. I need to prevent users from running who (w), df, mount, users and netstat, and I need to restrict top, ps, last and lastlog. I thought about the $PATH variable but that will prevent the users from running other applications as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this without breaking things?


Thanks for your time,
Seth