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dovecot: auth: Error: Cpanel::MailAuth: Failed to getpwnam

By Sreejit C July 5, 2014cPanel

If you are not able to access email even with correct username and password and you see below error in the /var/log/maillog Jul 5 18:15:20 hostname dovecot: auth: Error: Cpanel::MailAuth:…

Blank email after WHMCS upgrade to version 5.3.7

By Sreejit C June 16, 2014ScriptsWHMCS

On May 13th, 2014 WHMCS released new upgrade to version 5.3.7. And we have upgraded it on lots of sites during the past month. But there was bug in the…

ModSecurity: Multipart parsing error: Multipart: Failed to create file: /root/tmp/

By Sreejit C June 14, 2014cPanel, Linux Server Support1 Comment

We rebuild the Apache with modsecurity 2.7.3 on one of the server. But for some reason all file uploads to the server started failing with "500 Internal Server Error". And…

FTP issue after Plesk upgrade to version 12

By Sreejit C May 19, 2014Pleskproftpd2 Comments

We had recently upgraded plesk to version 12 on one of the server and it showed warning that ftp service will not work unless IPV6 is enabled on the server.…

Create SUDO user in cPanel

By Sreejit C March 23, 2014cPanel, Linux Server Support2 Comments

For security you might want to disable direct SSH login as root. First of all login as root and create an user which useradd sshadmin passwd sshadmin Now add this…

Recover cPanel from crashed OS/hard disk

By Sreejit C March 23, 2014cPanel1 Comment

Sometimes operating system or hard drive crashes and makes your system un-bootable. Don't panic. There are still chance that you recover all or most of your data. Call you data…

Basics of Linux Server Management

By Sreejit C February 15, 2014Linux Server SupportLinux

Linux server management is considered to be a complex task and costs lots of money. It's true if you are big company with large online database of clients. You will…

How to upgrade OpenSSH on CentOS 5

By Sreejit C February 11, 2014cPanel, Linux Server Support, Plesk14 Comments

If want your server to pass the PCI DSS scan then you will need the latest version OpenSSH. But the CentOS 5 repos doesn't contain the latest version of OpenSSH.…

Customize Apache vhost on cPanel

By Sreejit C January 20, 2014cPanelvhost template2 Comments

If you want to some custom entry added for a vhost for single domain then you can easily do it by creating /usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/username/*.conf and adding the entries to it. But…

Custom user php.ini for fcgi(FastCGI) PHP handler in cPanel

By Sreejit C January 17, 2014cPanel, Linux Server Supportcustom php.ini1 Comment

When the PHP hanlder is set to suPHP user can create their own php.ini files in public_html folder and modify the PHP variables. In case of DSO handler you have…