Creating a Reseller Account

To create a reseller account, use the AddReseller script. If you want to create reseller accounts that have a common set of services, you can use an existing reseller account as a template for the new reseller.

For the list of services, with corresponding options and values, that you can enable for the reseller account, see the Service Plans and service options table. On successful creation of the account, the message, Reseller <reseller name> successfully created, is displayed.

Syntax

/usr/local/bin/AddReseller [ -r <source reseller> ] [ -c <service>,<option>=<value>,... ...]

where:

• <source reseller> is the name of an existing reseller account whose account information you want to use as a template for the new reseller account. If you do not specify the <source reseller>, all the services and corresponding options of all services mentioned in the services and options table (Using the Reseller Command Line Interface scripts section) are required.
• <service> is the name of the service for which you want to specify options for the reseller.
• <option> is the arguments or parameters that you want to specify for the reseller.
• <value> is what the option specifies, such as a name, password, or measurement.

Creating a reseller account without using a template

AddReseller -c apache,jail=0 -c bandwidth,threshold=10485760000 -c users,maxusers=100 -c ssh,jail=0 -c diskquota,quota=524288000 -c reseller,username=Myname,fullname=Myname,enabled=1,
passwd,email=myname@example.com -c telnet,jail=0 -c ipinfo,namebased=10,ipbased=10

In this example, the script adds a reseller account with the following account information:

• Apache; jail option disabled
• Bandwidth; allocated: 10485760000
• Users; allocated: 100
• SSH; jail option disabled
• Disk quota; disk space allocated: 524288000
• User name: Myname
• Full name: Myname
• Email address: myname@example.com
• Telnet; jail option disabled
• IP-based sites; allocated:10
• Name-based sites; allocated:10

Creating a reseller account using a template

AddReseller -r reseller1 -c reseller,username=reseller2

In this example, the script creates a new reseller account, with the user name reseller2, using another reseller account, reseller1, as the template on which to base the account information.