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View Full Version : cPanel: EditDNS for customers (not for resellers): is it possible?


AlexAT
01-24-2009, 06:00 PM
Anybody see any addon that allows customers (not resellers) to change their DNS zones within cPanel?
Thank you!

UsefulPC
01-25-2009, 12:51 AM
Hi AlexAT,
Unfortunately this isn't possible and can lead to more negative than positive results if users are unsure about what they're doing. Directadmin and Plesk however have the ability to allow the client to edit DNS.

AlexAT
01-25-2009, 01:48 AM
Thank you.
I really doubt about negative results.
I'm tired a bit to do things that customers should do on their own.
There should be some external scripts for such simple task.

WireNine
01-25-2009, 02:23 AM
Not this isn't possible, and there is no addon available as far as I know but you can submit a request over at cPanel'z bugzilla and get people to vote for it :)

UsefulPC
01-25-2009, 05:38 AM
AlexAT,
You could offer a reseller account with a limit of only 1 or 2 cPanel Accounts and very limited functionality in WHM.

AlexAT
01-26-2009, 06:22 AM
WN-Ali - what do you mean "isn't possible"?
Is it hard to write script working with named and add 3 pages (zones list, zone edit, zone save) to cPanel's theme ?
UsefulPC - resellers accounts for end-users are too complicated. As far they are on English only.

dazmanultra
01-26-2009, 06:49 AM
Is it hard to write script working with named and add 3 pages (zones list, zone edit, zone save) to cPanel's theme ?
You'd have to be very careful with validating the data to be entered - it's easy in BIND for a bad zone file to break the whole thing. But I would say it's possible. :)

AlexAT
01-26-2009, 04:32 PM
You'd have to be very careful with validating the data to be entered - it's easy in BIND for a bad zone file to break the whole thing. But I would say it's possible. :)
"to break the whole thing" ? I thought that this can break only 1 DNS zone but not the whole named.
Why then cPanel allow Edit DNS for resellers? ;)

dazmanultra
01-26-2009, 05:46 PM
Who allows edit DNS for resellers on cPanel using BIND? Maybe they've improved but I know that it was a bad idea to do so a few years ago...

AlexAT
01-26-2009, 05:52 PM
I use "WHM \ Edit DNS" for several years.
I don't know about any issue with it.

remcom
01-26-2009, 08:10 PM
cPanel has more built in error checks now than it did years ago. It is harder now to submit an bad DNS entry.