Password traps are probably the type of plugin that generates the most support requests at the moment. When creating a password trap, it is important that you use a Function Hook rather than a Custom Event Handler. The reason for this is that function hooks are executed as root, while custom event handlers are executed as the user. If you are not familiar with function hooks, please read the Documentation. Function hooks reside …
Mostly the XML API is used for account management; however, there are other features in it that simplify system administration. The most obvious of these functions is the loadavg call. Last year, I wrote a class for working with the XML API from PHP. This class returns SimpleXML objects for each XML API call made. This makes development of remote cPanel interactions extremely simple. I’m going to go over how to …
One thing that I have noticed while working with other people developing software that interacts with WHM’s XML API is that they always use basic HTTP authentication. It is okay to use basic authentication, but it is held to the same security restrictions in place for people using browsers. When working with cPanel in a remote fashion, having to work around these restrictions is unnecessary. Inside of our DNS clustering system, we developed a solution …