Account only, no Public_html

keat63

• June 21, 2016 08:53

I've created an account on my dedcicated server, that I wish to utilise to upload a daily works backup. When creating an account on whm, it requires a domain name, so I made something up, with my 2 initials as the tld. Now I can freely upload via SFTP my daily backup. I've removed the mail directory, public_html directory and public_ftp directory. As there will be me, and me only that requires access to this, I've no requirements for any web site or asscociated services. Pure and simple ftp only. Could I do more to keep this secure and invisible ? Could I remove all DNS entries maybe leaving just FTP ? Was there an easier way to do this ?

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  24x7server

  • June 21, 2016 15:05

  Hello :), If you want to use this account only for the FTP backup then there is no need to create cPanel account through WHM. Just add user on your server with the useradd command and setup the password, After that you can use that user login details for the FTP backup.

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  keat63

  • June 22, 2016 08:09

  Can this not be done via the WHM gui ?

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  24x7server

  • June 22, 2016 13:10

  Hello :), NO. You can not create it through WHM. You need to login your server through SSH.

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  keat63

  • June 22, 2016 14:37

  I looked at the linux documentation but found it very confusing.

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 23, 2016 17:40

  New I looked at the linux documentation but found it very confusing.

  
  Hello, You can use the following commands to manually create a user:
  adduser username passwd username
  Keep in mind this user is not manageable through cPanel/WHM. Thank you.

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