How To Generate A Single-use Auto-Login URL For WHM/cPanel/Webmail? – cPanel

Introduction:

There may be an occasion where you need to generate a one-time login URL (AKA a login session) to any of the cPanel-related interfaces (WHM/cPanel/Webmail). This capability is built into your cPanel installation and can be achieved in a few different ways.

Procedure:

When logged into SSH as the root user, use the create_user_session API call to generate a login session for the desired service:

Creating a login session for WHM:
```
whmapi1 create_user_session user=root service=whostmgrd
```
As a shortcut, you can also run the following script:
```
/scripts/whmlogin
```

Creating a login session for a cPanel user:

whmapi1 create_user_session user=cptest service=cpaneld

Creating a login session for webmail:

whmapi1 create_user_session user=test@cptest.tld service=webmaild

The command generates a one-time use link to be pasted into your browser. If the session is not used within 15 minutes, it expires automatically.

Additional Information:

WHM API: Create a temporary user session

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