Reseller Web Hosting Offers:

How to Enable Terminal Application for cPanel user in WHM?

Silicon House Hosting comes with free cPanel/WHM. In WHM you can able to enable Terminal application for your cpanel users. This is a faster way to access shell by using cPanel in Dedicated servers. In this session we are going to see How to Enable Terminal Application for cPanel user in WHM by using Silicon House Dedicated Hosting.

Uses:

  • Much faster to complete some tasks using a Terminal than with graphical applications and menus.
  • It is allowing access to many more commands and scripts
  • A common terminal task of installing an application can be achieved within a single command
  • If enable shell access to the cPanel user, The SSH Access and terminal features will be enabled by default.

If SSH Access and terminal features are not enabled, you can enable this feature in WHM’s Feature Manager interface.

Kindly follow the below Procedure to enable shell access to particular user.

[1] Login to WHM 
[2] Go to Home 
[3] Click on Packages 
[4] Go to Feature Manager Option
[5] Enable Shell Access

You can refer the below Procedure to Enable Terminal option.

[1] Login to WHM
[2] Navigate to the “Account Functions”
[3] Click on the option “Manage Shell Access”
[4] You can enable the same by modifying the account and select the option shell access
[5] Search for the cPanel user in the search menu and by default, the option is selected as a disabled shell, change it to normal shell or jailed shell

Now the Terminal option will be available on the cPanel account!

You can navigate to it by login to the cPanel account. cPanel >> Home >> Advanced >> Terminal.

[1] Login to cPanel
[2] You can see the option “Terminal” under the “ADVANCED” menu
[3] Click the option to open the terminal
[4] If you are accessing the terminal for the first time, a screen will appear with a warning message
[5] Please click on the button proceed
[6] This interface provides command line access to your account on the server. You can now manage the account using CLI(Command Line Interface)

Done! You can now manage the account using CLI(Command Line Interface). Hereby you have seen How to Enable Terminal Application for particular user by using the WHM.