Update Contact Information option for Features List?

When I create a new feature list in WHM 68 there is no option to enable/disable the "Update Contact Information" options.
By default the new list have this option disabled which also prevents users from updating notification settings for their cPanel account.

Unfortunately this seems to mean I cannot use a feature list other than "default" unless I am willing to edit the feature list file manually, and I'm not sure that's the way it should be working..

I just paid for a VPS license, this installation is brand-new (hasn't been running for more than 4 days) and I would like to report this as a bug in the software.
I'm pretty sure the Feature list manager UI should allow the root user to change any and all available options in any given feature list.

I've used WHM/cPanel (version 68) on a different host provider and the option is marked as "Legacy" there, but does actually display. So maybe something was marked wrongly internally that causes this? I am hopeful this feature is not being removed, it seems like a rather important feature to have.

Just in case anyone else searches this issue with new installs, the work around is to edit the feature list file found in

Code:

/var/cpanel/features/

and change

Code:

updatecontact=0

to

Code:

updatecontact=1

I hope the feature manager UI gets some udpate love in the near future.

Thanks for your time!

 

No, you misunderstand me.
The description of the settings and their expected function, spot on. But the issue here is that the UI doesn't show the option at all. You CANNOT change this option (on a brand-new installation) without locating and editing a text file.

Again. The problem is specifically that brand-new installations of WHM/cPanel DO NOT have the "Contact Information Legacy" option available in the Feature List UI of WHM.

The option is clearly required for internal code to to figure out if a cpanel account should get access or not, but the code that is responsible for displaying "Contact Information Legacy" in the Feature List UI does not display this option regardless of its state (on or off) within the WHM Feature List UI.

This, imho, is most certainly a bug that needs to be fixed. Or at least I didn't purchase a $200 software license expecting to spend two hours hunting for a config file and options to edit.

The only way I know to replicate and test this is to install a brand-new (version 68) trial of cpanel, then upgrade it to a VPS license. Visit the feature manager and create a new feature list, create a new package for this list as well. Add an account using the new package/feature list and then log into that account and look for the contact info/notification settings page. The page will not be available until you manually edit the new feature list file to change the option mentioned in the original post, and likely will need to modify the account or its package to force the change to take effect.