CPanel ACL

[austenite]

Hi there

Never sold reseller accounts until recently so have only just came across this issue, but the core Blesta CPanel module doesn't appear to pass the ACL (Account Creation Limits) onto the account creation, it can create a reseller account according to the package you've assigned it. However the ACL is something that isn't defined by the package and is something I'm having to modify post account creation. These also aren't defined per the ACL Lists but have to be passed to the server on account creation from Blesta. See my screenshot for the values I'm describing, note that these values aren't defined anywhere when creating a package, nor is there any way to edit or set a 'standard value' for these within WHM. These values are set per account and therefore these have to be set at account creation, is there anyway the core module can have this sort of behaviour implemented and what are others doing to overcome this? 

The WHM API token has full access. 

This was previously brought up here - https://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7417-setting-up-whm-reseller/ but no fix actually provided, instead the poster used CPanel extended which done the job. I don't want to use the third party module, mainly because it keeps being broken, then fixed then broken and would like to stick to the official module. 

 

 

[austenite]

Any feedback on this at all? 

[Jonathan]

This is essentially a feature request, and a pretty good one.  @Paul

[austenite]

Was kind of hoping for official acknowledgement of this or at least a response. @Paul are you able to chip in at all? 

[bdacus01]

I would log a SR. You might email him as well.  I would also put it here https://requests.blesta.com/

[Web Hosting UK]

This would be very useful.

[Paul]

I'm not totally sure I understand. Is this just a request to be able to set all of these reseller options on the Package in Blesta, if it's a reseller Package? When the reseller account is set, all these items are passed along? If so, does anyone have a list of all the options that should be included, or a screenshot in WHM where they would be set if created manually?

[austenite]

2 minutes ago, Paul said:

I'm not totally sure I understand. Is this just a request to be able to set all of these reseller options on the Package in Blesta, if it's a reseller Package? When the reseller account is set, all these items are passed along? If so, does anyone have a list of all the options that should be included, or a screenshot in WHM where they would be set if created manually?

Hey Paul, 

It would be a request to add those features into the package tool within Blesta and then those values be passed on upon account creation within WHM. With blestas current implementation of this resellers can create an unlimited number of accounts that utilise unlimited space and bandwidth. So resellers aren't limited at at all, whilst the reseller themselves can be limited through a package on WHM, that only limits the reseller themselves and not their resold accounts. 

The values that need to be passed are per my screenshot, the other permissions are managed through an ACL list. I'm happy to create a reseller account on my server for you to take a look at if you'd like. 

I'm not much of a developer so wouldn't be able to provide any evidence of what specific things you'd need to tweak. Simply saying this as an end user of blesta. 

[Paul]

7 minutes ago, austenite said:

Hey Paul, 

It would be a request to add those features into the package tool within Blesta and then those values be passed on upon account creation within WHM. With blestas current implementation of this resellers can create an unlimited number of accounts that utilise unlimited space and bandwidth. So resellers aren't limited at at all, whilst the reseller themselves can be limited through a package on WHM, that only limits the reseller themselves and not their resold accounts. 

The values that need to be passed are per my screenshot, the other permissions are managed through an ACL list. I'm happy to create a reseller account on my server for you to take a look at if you'd like. 

I'm not much of a developer so wouldn't be able to provide any evidence of what specific things you'd need to tweak. Simply saying this as an end user of blesta. 

So only the options in your screenshot? No others? I agree we should do this, but when I create the task I want it to be clearly defined.

[austenite]

What I'll do is double check and report back, I work with cpanel everyday so am pretty confident however am no developer. Also, it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong! ?

 

I'll let you know mate, thanks for the response. 

[austenite]

Sorry I forgot to update this, the only values in addition to those already passed by the cpanel module when creating a reseller would be those that I've screenshoted. 

[austenite]

Did anything ever happen with this?

[austenite]

Searching cPanel reseller ACL on Google shows this thread and a few others.

Judging by other threads it looks like there's a number of the Blesta devs along with other forums members that simply don't understand (or don't want to understand) exactly how WHM/cPanel assign reseller limits and the capability of the API. The ACL's aren't assigned per package, but per account and therefore they have to be assigned in one of the following fashions;

1) Assigned by calling setresellerlimits in the API on account creation (Blesta doesn't do this). 

2) Manually through WHM post account creation. 

This is a pretty fundamental part of the reseller account creation process, and without this Blesta currently doesn't server those that sell reseller packages very well using the core cPanel module. Comparing the module to WHMCS, ClientExec and free alternatives like BoxBilling I can see that these other systems have nailed this. Why is Blesta missing some really very important functionality? Nothing seems to be happening with it at all.

[austenite]

@Paul or anyone else dev team that can assist?

Is there any movement at all with this? 

[Paul]

30 minutes ago, austenite said:

@Paul or anyone else dev team that can assist?

Is there any movement at all with this? 

What's the tl;dr? Set reseller options on the Package in Blesta?

[austenite]

9 minutes ago, Paul said:

What's the tl;dr? Set reseller options on the Package in Blesta?

Reseller limits aren't specified per package, but per account as mentioned above ^

[austenite]

Limits need to be passed through the API upon account creation, the package in WHM/Blesta only applies to the cPanel account belonging to the resller itself, not the additional cPanel accounts it creates. At the moment Blesta users have to do it manually, you can see how WHMCS deals with this here;

https://docs.whmcs.com/CPanel/WHM#For_a_reseller_package

https://docs.whmcs.com/File:Cpanel5.png