{"id":43,"date":"2018-04-25T17:38:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techplushost.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2018-04-25T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:38:54","slug":"cpanel-whm-creating-second-whm-user-with-root-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techplushost.com\/blog\/cpanel-whm-creating-second-whm-user-with-root-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"[cPanel\/WHM] Creating second WHM user with root privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"

n order to have more than one user with\u00a0root<\/i>\u00a0privileges to handle\u00a0WHM\u00a0<\/i>as a Reseller, there are several steps to take. You should login to your server via SSH and use these commands below:<\/p>\n

useradd secondroot\r\n<\/i><\/pre>\n
passwd secondroot<\/i><\/pre>\n
usermod -aG wheel secondroot<\/i><\/pre>\n
echo \"secondroot:all\" >> \/var\/cpanel\/resellers<\/i><\/pre>\n
<\/i>Please take a note that “secondroot<\/i>” should be changed into your wanted username. After performing the commands login into your WHM with\u00a0root<\/i>\u00a0credentials and do the following:<\/p>\n
1. Go to “Home<\/b>“;<\/p>\n
2. Press on “Resellers<\/b>“;<\/p>\n
\"cPanel<\/p>\n
3. Then press “Edit Reseller Nameservers and Privileges<\/b>“.
\n\"cPanel<\/p>\n
Here check all the settings for the new user in ACL the same as your\u00a0root<\/i>\u00a0user has:<\/p>\n
\"cPanel<\/a><\/p>\n
After saving the settings, you can login with your new user via WHM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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