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Creating user *without* domain

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by rjbell4, Mar 23, 2010.

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    Hi, I'm new to cPanel/WHM, coming from Ensim. I like the flexibility so far!

    I'm wondering what the best supported way is to create a user account that only needs shell access. This user does not need to be associated with a domain. The user account would be used to run some automated scripts that are custom, not functionality normally supported by cPanel.

    cPanel/WHM seems very flexible, so I'm wondering what the best was is to do this.

    Thanks!
     
    #1 rjbell4, Mar 23, 2010
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    It would just as simple as adding the user to the system. Do this via a shell prompt:

    useradd username

    That will create a new user, and a new group, for the ‘username’ that you placed in there. Now, to change the password for that user, run this:

    passwd username

    If you have secures SSH, make sure you add the user to the allowed list if needed.
     
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    Thanks. I'm familiar with adduser/useradd. My preference was to do something supported by WHM, and barring that, something that wouldn't confuse WHM. Thank you for confirmed what that would be.
     
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