Hi, im just curios if most people secure their SSH, ROOT, and FTP using alternate usernames and then disabling the root login why are there no UI options for this to make it simple. I know there is a UI for turning off root login, but there is no simple process for server admin challenged people as myself that know very little about admining a server. Lack of such knowledge does not mean that we should be left out in the cold just because we want to have our own server.
Many users come to cpanel because it is the best UI out there and it makes it easy. However such a global process that everyone does is left out of the UI for some reason. I would like to see several options added to cpanel WHM UI, leave the command line out of it unless really necessary.
This would be under the host environment.
1. easily create a new user and password inside the UI without having to associate it with a account.
2. easily allow that user to be set as access specific ie. only smtp, only mail, only ftp, only ssh.
3. easily set up the user access for those specific features in item 2 to be sure it works without having to edit conf files manually. I followed the instructions perfectly for setting up the key with putty and it still said it rejected it.
4. in the ssh import key section it says you can paste a file but there is no way to do that, there is no option for pasting file on that page or inside that key block.
5. add shell access menu for emergencies, i am sitting here now with a error in my ssh file so i cant access ssh, my ftp does not work so i cant download the file to fix it and if i lose my WHM for some reason then im totally locked out and i will have to wipe my system again.
6. I would also like to see a file manager included in WHM. Why does almost every other open source product have a file manager but yet a paid service (and very expensive) like WHM does not?
The purpose of this request is that everyone does this usually the first thing to secure things, so why is this not more UI realated and features added as a option to do this all in one menu. Everyone has issues with setting this up, i see a kazillion questions on how to do it. So why not have it in a menu 1-2-3 done...
Many users come to cpanel because it is the best UI out there and it makes it easy. However such a global process that everyone does is left out of the UI for some reason. I would like to see several options added to cpanel WHM UI, leave the command line out of it unless really necessary.
This would be under the host environment.
1. easily create a new user and password inside the UI without having to associate it with a account.
2. easily allow that user to be set as access specific ie. only smtp, only mail, only ftp, only ssh.
3. easily set up the user access for those specific features in item 2 to be sure it works without having to edit conf files manually. I followed the instructions perfectly for setting up the key with putty and it still said it rejected it.
4. in the ssh import key section it says you can paste a file but there is no way to do that, there is no option for pasting file on that page or inside that key block.
5. add shell access menu for emergencies, i am sitting here now with a error in my ssh file so i cant access ssh, my ftp does not work so i cant download the file to fix it and if i lose my WHM for some reason then im totally locked out and i will have to wipe my system again.
6. I would also like to see a file manager included in WHM. Why does almost every other open source product have a file manager but yet a paid service (and very expensive) like WHM does not?
The purpose of this request is that everyone does this usually the first thing to secure things, so why is this not more UI realated and features added as a option to do this all in one menu. Everyone has issues with setting this up, i see a kazillion questions on how to do it. So why not have it in a menu 1-2-3 done...
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