cPanel & WHM Server’s System User Accounts

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cPanel WHM Servers System User Accounts
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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Accounts
• Accounts (Continued)
• Accounts (Continued I)

• Accounts (Continued II)
• Accounts (Continued III)
• Accounts (Continued IV)

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Introduction

• The information contained here is regarding the
  different system user accounts that the cPanel
  WHM server contains. Various functions, which
  include managing services, are performed by these
  accounts.
• cPanel WHM is a suite of tools that is built
  for the Linux operating system for enabling the
  automation of web hosting tasks through a simple
  graphical user interface. Web hosting is a
  service that is provided by web hosting companies
  for making websites accessible over the Internet.
  The Top Cloud Hosting Company, the Best Linux
  Shared Hosting Company, the Best Windows
  Dedicated Hosting Company, etc. are some of the
  terms that are used for the most popular web
  hosting companies.
• The following slides will have the accounts and
  their descriptions.

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Accounts

• clamav The ClamAV anti-virus plugin is managed
  by this user.
• cpanel - Various cPanel services are managed by
  this user.
• cpanelanalytics The service of cPanel Analytics
  on the server is managed by this user.

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Accounts (Continued)

• cpanelcabcache The local CA (Certificate
  Authority) cache for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
  is managed by this user.
• cpanelconnecttrack The Passive OS
  fingerprinting (p0f) system is managed by this
  user.
• cpanellogin The logins to the cPanel interface
  are managed by this user.

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Accounts (Continued I)

• cpaneleximfilter Mails filtering in the Exim
  mail server is managed by this user.
• cpaneleximscanner Outbound mails scanning by
  Apache SpamAssassin is managed by this user.
• cpanelhorde Horde webmail processes are managed
  by this user.

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1-800-123 -8156

• Whoa! Thats a big number, arent you
  proud?

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Accounts (Continued II)

• cpanelphpmyadmin PHPMyAdmin requests for MySQL
  databases are managed by this user.
• cpanelphppgadmin PHPPgAdmin requests for
  PostgreSQL databases are managed by this user.
• cpanelroundcube RoundCube webmail processes are
  managed by this user.

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Accounts (Continued III)

• cpanelrrdtool The Round Robin DNS requests are
  managed by this user.
• cpanelsolr Apache Solr requests are managed by
  this user.
• dovecot The Dovecot mail service is managed by
  this user.

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Accounts (Continued IV)

• nobody Various script requests are handled by
  this unprivileged user.
• root The operating systems root user.

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