Limit number of shared accounts a reseller can create

[jj@24khost]

This allow for us to control overselling fo account numbers, this is already in cpanel looking for it here.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

I've written you this guide:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=442

John

 

[jj@24khost]

Well that is fine and dandy but depending on the plan it has a different amount of resellers, being able to specify this via the control panel woud be a major help.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

I've actually to agree with the user.

John, a reseller can have different packages and each packages can allow less or more users, ofc for now should be a start, but maybe an implementation in package would be better (also i think is possible with custom value in packages and use that variable for the IF statement, but, a built-in should be better).

Ill investigate on custom variable once ive some free time and let know if that does work (i suppose yes with a little hand-work)

Regards

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Ive just noticed that the feature http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=479 is single for resellers and user packages, maybe should be nice to split it in two (one for reseller one for users).

I will update this post once test done.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Ok, it can be done using those steps:

craete a file called:

/usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/custom_package_items.conf

and put inside it this line:

users_number=type=text&string=Users Number&desc=Number of users that can be created.

create this file:

/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/user_create_pre.sh

and put this code:

#!/bin/sh

MAX_USERS='cat /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/$creator/user.conf | grep users_number | cut -d= -f2'

if [ "$usertype" != "user" ]; then

    exit 0;

fi

#obtains the exact number of domains on the system right now.  The tally is delayed, and cannot be used.
CURRENT=`wc -l /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/$creator/users.list | cut -d\  -f1`

if [ "$CURRENT" -ge "$MAX_USERS" ]; then

      echo "Maximum number of Users  ($MAX_USERS) have already been created.  Cannot create any more."
      exit 1;

fi

exit 0;

now set permissions, so:

chown diradmin:diradmin /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/user_create_pre.sh
chown diradmin:diradmin /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/custom_package_items.conf
chmod 700 /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/user_create_pre.sh
chmod 644 /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/custom_package_items.conf

Done, you will now have in package manager (on create) a value for set a limit of user-per-reseller.

When you will create a new reseller he will have a custom value in his user.conf (called users_number=)

The script will be called always before a user is created (if is not a user being created it will just exit) and will check the user.conf of the creator (reseller or admin no matter) and if limit is over will pop a message with this error "Maximum number of Users ($MAX_USERS) have already been created. Cannot create any more." where ofc MAX_USERS variable is the set of his limit.

Hope it help

Regards

 

[jj@24khost]

Thanks for your dillegence!