Posts Tagged ‘cPanel Hosting’

User Manager and Unified Logins

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

cPanelUnified Logins

In the past, cPanel maintained different specifications/rules for usernames and passwords for email, FTP, and Web Disk.  These different rules meant that users logins for each of these services had to be different.  Requiring different username/password combinations for different services complicates access unnecessarily.

Starting with version 54, cPanel is introducing a new username standard, with all usernames now following a typical email address format.  By implementing a common username format, cPanel account owners can now give end users the same login for email, FTP, and Web Disk, easing account management.

mail-ftp-web-diskThe User Manager

There is now a single interface with which you can quickly create, search, filter and manage User accounts on cPanel.  This streamlined interface provides improvements over existing interfaces, including:

  • A single page User creation screen which can create an email, FTP, and Web Disk account at the same time
  • A simple way to configure and maintain email, FTP, and Web Disk settings for a User in a single page
  • A simple way to link separate email, FTP, and Web Disk accounts that share the same username so your End Users can start taking advantage of a Unified Login immediately
  • Password reset for all of a User’s services in single step

The User Manager List View

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The User Manager Create/Edit Screen

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If you have old accounts that have different usernames and passwords, you will see these displayed separately, and have a link to connect them to one synchronized account login.  User accounts can very easily be edited for the users name, email address, alternate email address, and restrictions you would want on their accounts.

Where does this take us?

Usually you will connect to the cPanel using your register4less.com account by navigating to Paid Hosting > Manage Advanced Hosting.  This will then open the cPanel interface as normal.  We do occasionally get requests by domain owners to give their web development person direct access to the cPanel.  While this can be covered by creating a sub-user with permissions enabled for Manage Email hosting and Manage Web Hosting, some developers are more comfortable with accessing the cPanel interface directly.

The cPanel development team are looking to the future and building a robust User Model, which will allow for granting of access to specific cPanel feature sets in addition to the common email, FTP, and Web Disk services.

New Hosting Platform Now Live!

Friday, May 24th, 2013

For those of you who watch the R4L Blog, great news. The new advanced hosting services are now live! This is literally the biggest undertaking we have taken in terms of adding new services for our customers, and one that our entire team is very excited about.

Hosting on R4L Dedicated Servers

First, a little history on how this development came about. (more…)