Edit Reseller Nameservers and Privileges

Overview

This interface allows you to modify reseller permissions. You can set cPanel account creation limits and quotas for resellers. You can also select which privileges a particular reseller can access. You control these privileges with Access Control Lists (ACLs). For example, you can perform the following actions:

• Limit a reseller’s ability to create cPanel accounts.
• Assign nameserver IP addresses for cPanel accounts that the reseller creates. This setting also adds A entries for those addresses.

To modify limits and privileges, select the reseller that you wish to modify, then click Submit.

If only one reseller exists, the interface automatically selects that reseller. Alternatively, use the Reseller Actions for menu in WHM’s Reseller Center interface (WHM >> Home >> Resellers >> Reseller Center).

Account Creation Limits

This interface uses three methods to limit a reseller’s ability to create cPanel accounts. A server that contains many cPanel accounts can deplete resources and cause it to run slowly. Use any of the following methods to prevent resource depletion:

• Total number of accounts
• Limit by resource usage
• Specify packages

Total number of accounts

To limit the total number of cPanel accounts that a reseller can create, perform the following steps:

1. Select the Limit the total number of accounts reseller can create checkbox.
2. Enter the maximum number of cPanel accounts to allow the reseller to create in the text box.

Limit by resource usage

To limit cPanel accounts by resource usage, select the Limit accounts that reseller can create by Resource Usage checkbox. This setting allows you to specify a maximum amount of disk space, bandwidth, or both, in megabytes (MB).

To limit a reseller account by resource usage, perform the following steps:

1. Select the Limit accounts that reseller can create by Resource Usage checkbox. The Resource Usage Limits settings will appear.
2. Enter the quotas, in megabytes, in the Maximum Allowed Disk Space and Maximum Allowed Bandwidth text boxes. You cannot enter an unlimited value in these text boxes.
   Note:

   You must provide values in both of these text boxes. However, if you want to limit a single setting, enter a very large numerical value in the opposite setting’s text box. For example, enter a 99999999 value in the Maximum Allowed Disk Space text box. Then, enter a 1024 value in the Maximum Allowed Bandwidth text box to limit the bandwidth to 1024 MB.

3. Select the Allow Overselling checkbox next to each resource that you wish to allow your reseller to oversell.
   Note:

   Overselling combines the actual disk space used by a reseller’s cPanel accounts. If you do not enable overselling, resellers can only assign quotas that add up to the amount that you set.

Specify packages

Packages allow your reseller to specify settings for cPanel accounts. For example, a reseller can limit a cPanel account’s amount of monthly bandwidth or the number of subdomains. For more information about packages, read our Add a Package documentation.

To specify which packages a reseller can use to create cPanel accounts, perform the following steps:

1. Select Specify which packages reseller can use for account creation. The Package Limits settings will appear.
2. Select the Creation Allowed checkbox for each package that you wish to allow the reseller to use.
   Important:

   You must select the desired Creation Allowed checkboxes to allow the reseller to use that package.

3. To set a maximum number of cPanel accounts per package, select Limit the number of accounts that a reseller can create per package. Enter the number of packages that you wish to allow this reseller to sell for each package in the Number Allowed text box.

Account Enhancement Assignment Limits

Use this section to set limits for how many Account Enhancements that a reseller can assign to the cPanel accounts they own.

To update the reseller’s Account Enhancement limit, perform the following steps.

1. Locate the Account Enhancement ID that you wish to edit in the table.
2. Set the Account Enhancement limit:
   • Enter the maximum number of Account Enhancements in the Assignment Limit text box.
   • To allow unlimited Account Enhancement assignments, select the Unlimited option.
   • To disallow Account Enhancement assignments, enter 0 in the Assignment Limit text box.
3. Click Save All Settings.

Feature Limits (ACL Lists)

You can use ACLs to manage your resellers’ privilege to access certain WHM features. For example, you can grant or deny the privilege to use WHM’s List Accounts interface (WHM >> Home >> Account Information >> List Accounts). By default, the system assigns the Initial Privileges settings to newly-created reseller accounts.

You can also edit ACL settings with one of the following methods:

• Set the privileges with the WHM API 1 setacls function.
• Create an ACL list that contains these privileges with the WHM API 1 saveacllist function. Then, assign that ACL list to the account. For more information, read our Guide to WHM Plugins – ACL Reference Chart documentation.

Load an ACL List

To load a preconfigured ACL list, select that list from the Load an ACL List menu. To add ACLs for the current reseller, select the checkbox for each ACL to add to the reseller account.

Basic Privileges

These ACLs grant access to basic cPanel account information. The ACLs also allow resellers to perform session management. The server enables these privileges by default.

Initial Privileges

Standard Privileges

These ACLs allow resellers to view their cPanel accounts and the bandwidth that they use. The Standard Privileges ACLs include the following groups:

• Account Information
• Account Management
• DNS
• Packages
• Third-Party Services
• Troubleshooting
• cPanel Management
• Account Enhancements

Account Information

Account Management

DNS

Packages

Third-Party Services

Troubleshooting

cPanel Management

Account Enhancements

Package Privileges

The following ACLs allow resellers to create, use, and modify cPanel account packages.

• Accounts
• Package Access
• Package Creation

Accounts

Package Access

Package Creation

Global Privileges

The following ACLs grant access to server-level information and configurations. The Global Privileges ACLs include the following groups:

• Server Information
• Services
• Troubleshooting

Server Information

Services

Troubleshooting

Super Privileges

The following ACLs grant root-level access configurations.

The Super Privileges ACLs include the following groups:

• Account Management
• Advanced Account Management
• Clustering
• Locales

Account Management

Advanced Account Management

Clustering

Locales

Root Access

The following ACL grants a reseller root-level privileges on the server.

Everything

Save the ACL List

You can save an ACL list and apply the same privilege configuration to other resellers. To do this, perform one of the following actions:

• Save selections as a new ACL list — Saves the ACL list for future use. Select the option, enter an ACL list name, then click Save All Settings to save.
• Save selections as an existing ACL list — Updates an existing ACL list. Select the option, select the list to update from the menu, then click Save All Settings to save.
• Do not save selections — Applies privileges to the current reseller, but does not save any changes, and does not update any ACL lists. Select this option and click Save All Settings to save.

Nameservers

Use this section to set the default nameserver IP addresses. The server assigns these addresses to new cPanel accounts that the reseller creates. Available IP addresses must exist on your server to use this feature.

No available IP addresses

You may currently be using all of your IP addresses. If so, then you must purchase more from your internet service provider (ISP) or hosting provider. Add them to the server before you set up nameserver IP addresses. We recommend that you select Inherit Nameservers from root to use the same nameservers as the root user.

Custom nameservers

You can enter custom nameservers for your primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary nameservers. To do this, select Explicitly Set the Nameservers and then enter the appropriate information.

A and AAAA entries

A entries allow your nameserver to resolve to an IP address. To add an A entry or a AAAA entry for a nameserver, select Explicitly Set the Nameservers and perform the following steps:

1. Click Configure Address Records. A new window will appear.
2. In the new window, enter an IPv4 address to create an A record. You may additionally enter an IPv6 address to create a AAAA record.
   • Your nameservers require A entries to work properly.
   • Your nameservers require AAAA entries to work over IPv6 properly.
3. Click Configure Address Records.
   Warning:

   You must register your nameserver’s domain names. The server uses the ns prefix, and a positive whole number to describe nameservers. For example, ns1.example.com or ns2.example.com).

Save settings

To save your changes, you must click Save All Settings.