Single DA user login for mutiple domains - shared-IP & static-IP

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Vibe

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Hi everyone,

Some of our customers recently have asked if they could manage all of their domains with a single login to DA. This is not a problem (of course) for clients that do not require a static IP address - we have many clients hosting multiple domains under one account in this fashion.

However, during the past week I have had several clients with multiple shared-IP domains and a couple of static-IP domains ask if they could consolidate. One client has 5 shared-IP domains and 2 static-IP domains. To accomplish this they have 3 separate logins to DA.

Is this at all possible?

Thanks so much for any comments!
 
Perhaps a reseller account which can override the client accounts to login would be an option for them instead.
 
Vibe said:
One client has 5 shared-IP domains and 2 static-IP domains. To accomplish this they have 3 separate logins to DA.
Is this at all possible?
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If the main concern here is remembering bunch of different passwords, consolidating all these accounts under special reseller might be what you need.

  1. Create a new reseller (let's call it gateway and let's assume its password is mypassword)
  2. move all accounts of this clients to gateway reseller. SSH as root into the server and execute:
    PHP: 
    cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/
./move_user_to_reseller.sh <user1> <oldreseller> gateway
./move_user_to_reseller.sh <user2> <oldreseller> gateway
./move_user_to_reseller.sh <user3> <oldreseller> gateway
    where user1, user2 and user3 are usernames of 3 separate DA accounts and oldreseller is the username of their reseller account.
  3. Now you can login to user1's DA account with the following credentials:
    username: gateway|user1
    password: mypassword
  4. Furthermore, you can incorporate "gateway|" part into your own login form to make it less confusing for your client.
    Here is the HOWTO How to create a login page for DirectAdmin on your website
Hope that helps.
 
I was thinking about setting the customers up as a reseller - but wasn't sure if this would be confusing to them (not too saavy with DA).

Webcart - you hit the nail on the head - thank you! I will definitely try this out. I certainly appreciate the "tutorial" :)

Thanks everyone for your suggestions - they are greatly appreciated!
 
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