The Feature
With cPanel version 104, we have added a "Choose a starting point" dialogue box that appears the first time you log in to cPanel. This is designed to help new users get a site up and running quickly, and get more familiar with the cPanel interface.
Description
While this is great for new users, people already familiar with cPanel may not want to see this appear. The dialogue box will not show for the following conditions:
- There is content in the user's public_html directory
- WP Toolkit and Backups are disabled
- The user has already dismissed the dialogue box by closing it
Disabling the Dialogue Box
Disabling for one user
You can disable the box from appearing for a specific user with the following command:
echo '{"personalization":{"cp-welcome-panel_dismissed":"1"}}' | uapi --input=json --output=jsonpretty --user=username Personalization set
You'll just need to replace "$username" with the particular cPanel user you are working with.
Disabling for all future users
If you'd rather disable this for all users on your system, you can do that with the following command by utilizing the cPanel Skeleton Directory:
mkdir -pv /root/cpanel3-skel/.cpanel/nvdata; echo -n "1" > /root/cpanel3-skel/.cpanel/nvdata/cp-welcome-panel_dismissed
That will keep the dialogue box from appearing for all future users that are created on the server.