How to enable remote shell access

[jayapalchandran]

hi,
i want to use putty to remotely access my server. when i connected
it said you have to enable the shell access in your server...
and when i logged in the cPanel control panel i couldn't find any option like that.
where do i have to click or go to enable this???

 

[dheerajkumar]

Sheel access

HI,

Yes, you can enable shell access in the server, they are two ways

1. In WHM you can enable when creating a account, if account is created you can enable using MODIFY account.

2. In Shell you can change the entry of the user in /etc/passwd file

Without shell access
username:x:170:170:username daemon:/:/sbin/nologin
Change it as
username:x:170:170:username daemon:/:/bin/bash

But it is not recoomended to give shell access to a hosting cpanel user.

With regards,
Dheeraj kuamr.B