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Create Web Disk Users Without Domain Name?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by KC-Bill, May 20, 2014.

  1. KC-Bill

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    Is it possible to create Web Disk users for domain.com's account without the user name including the domain name? For example, I'd like to create "username" rather than "username@domain.com". When I couldn't find a way to do this in the cPanel GUI, I tried creating the users with the "@domain.com" then editing the passwd & shadow files to remove it, but attempting to log in as that user afterwards gives me a "Forbidden" message even though the account shows correctly in cPanel.
     
    #1 KC-Bill, May 20, 2014
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    I not sure if this is possible or not.

    Additional WebDisk users, FTP Users, Addon Domain users, Email Accounts all use that same format, user @ domain.com for a reason.
     
    #2 Infopro, May 21, 2014
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    Hello :)

    This is not possible, with the exception of the cPanel account username. It's configured this way so that the same username is not configured multiple times on the same system.

    Thank you.
     
    #3 cPanelMichael, May 21, 2014
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    I understand the reasoning, but as the server admin I need to do it for one of my customers anyway. I'd prefer just using Web Disk since it's built-in but if cPanel doesn't allow it even with some sort of kludgy workaround, would enabling WebDav cause a conflict? One way or the other I need to make this work.
     
    #4 KC-Bill, May 21, 2014
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    I am not aware of any workarounds to the existing behavior. Have you considered any other alternative methods of file management? You could submit a feature request via:

    Submit A Feature Request

    Thank you.
     
    #5 cPanelMichael, May 22, 2014
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    I will look into a feature request, but in the short term I need a solution for my customer. I can't consider alternates, as my customer is trying to get his site to integrate with a 3rd party app which only supports a few connection options, WebDav being the only viable one (other options are things like Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive, things like that).

    The other part of my question was if I enabled WebDav in Apache, would that conflict with cPanel's Web Disk implementation?
     
    #6 KC-Bill, May 22, 2014
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    The Dav Apache module is an independent service so it should work on it's own without conflicting with web disk:

    Apache Module - Dav

    Thank you.
     
    #7 cPanelMichael, May 22, 2014
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    I'll give that a shot instead then. Thanks for the assistance.
     
    #8 KC-Bill, May 22, 2014
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    Apache WebDav tends to read and write files with the permissions of Apache, rather than the user that owns the directory. This means permissions on home directories and their sub directories need to be looser than advised.

    I haven't checked with newer features like mod_ruid2 to see if that has changed.
     
    #9 cPanelKenneth, May 23, 2014
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