How to enable shell access for cPanel users via WHM?

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 shrafsupportadmin 769 Views

Silicon House offers Unlimited cPanel in Linux Reseller Hosting Packages. cPanel is a graphical interface designed to host your website. It has been popular control panel used in Linux hosting. cPanel has been provided with lot of features to design your website. In Linux Web-Hosting Panel, you can enable shell access to all cPanel users via WHM.

1) Login to WHM
2) Navigate to the “Account Functions”.
3) Click on “Manage Shell Access”.
4) 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 you can able to see terminal option in cPanel

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

Now you successfully enabled the Terminal access in your cPanel.