LIVE CHATHostMonster Web Hosting Help
VPS or Dedicated Hosting - Enabling Sudo Access
To make managing your HostMonster Dedicated server even easier we have built a tool to quickly grant sudo access to your primary cPanel user.
Enabling Sudo Access
To enable sudo access for your main cPanel user you will need to do the following:- Login to your HostMonster Control Panel
- Click the Performance quicklink
- Scroll down to the Access Management section.
- Click the Primary User tab.
- Click Enable, to the right of Sudo Access is:
You will need to logout of any open terminal sessions for the change to take place.
Once done your username will be added to the wheel group. If you create any additional users you will need to manually add them to the wheel group, or modify the sudoers file, to grant them sudo access. To see how to modify the sudoers file please view this article from the CentOS wiki: How To Become Root
bookmark
share
E-mail
Twitter
Google Bookmarks
Facebook
MySpace
Digg
Reddit
Delicious
LinkedIn
StumbleUponRecommended Help Content
This article will explain how to log in to your Account Control Panel
How do I Access My Account Control Panel?
If you are receiving an error that the page could not be displayed when trying to log into the control panel. It is most likely due to the fact that your firewall is blocking the port that the control
Related Help Content
If you need to transfer or restore a cPanel account for your VPS or Dedicated server, there is a tool within the WHM panel to perform these tasks. This article is about transferring or restoring from another server or restoring after a re-image.
Knowledgebase Article
89,603 views
tags: backup cpanel dedicated hosting restore server transfer vps
89,603 views
tags: backup cpanel dedicated hosting restore server transfer vps
How do I grant permissions to cPanel for my MySQL database administrator without giving them the domain password?
How to install Java in a dedicated server.
How to use the yum package mnager to install and update applications and programs.
This article will explain how-to enable FTP on a newly provisioned VPS or Dedicated cPanel server. Since FTP is an unsecured connection point to the server, cPanel has it disabled by default in version 11.86 or prior.
This tutorial will help you be able to install the PHP PECL package APC. (Alternative PHP Cache)
This is a tutorial on how to install Git onto the server.