Authenticating with access hash instead of reseller password with cPanel API2

Hello. I am trying to extract disk and bandwidth usage from cPanel accounts under a reseller. To this end, I am using the cPanel API2 StatsBar->stats->display. The problem I am having is authenticating. When I use the reseller password to log in to any account below the reseller, everything works fine. However, this seems like a bad solution as opposed to using access hashes. But when using the access hash of the reseller account instead (located in /home/reseller/.accesshash), I get access denied errors. Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Am I not supposed to be using access hashes here? Is the use of reseller passwords the advocated and approved solution? Thanks a lot. My code is below. Devel.

		...
		$cpCfg = array('cpanel' => array('service' => array('cpanel' => array(
			'host' => 'ip goes here',
			'user' => 'any cPanel account goes here',
			//'password' => 'reseller password goes here'
			'accesshash' => $access-hash-without-newlines-goes-here
		))));
		$cp = Cpanel_PublicAPI::getInstance($cpCfg);
		$queryMF = array(
			'module' => 'StatsBar',
			'function' => 'stat',
		);
		$queryArgs = array(
			'display' => 'diskusage|bandwidthusage'
		);
		$response = $cp->cpanel_api2_request('cpanel', $queryMF, $queryArgs);

		echo ''.print_r($response, true).'';
		...

vanessa

February 11, 2014 03:28

Using an access hash tends to be the preferred solution. It looks like you're using the public API here, correct?

cPanelMichael

February 11, 2014 15:03

Hello :) Yes, you must use the password in the scenario you described. We don't support cPanel access with the root/reseller override using any other mechanism at this time. Thank you.

Authenticating with access hash instead of reseller password with cPanel API2

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