[cPanel/WHM] Creating second WHM user with root privileges

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In order to have more than one user with root privileges to handle WHM as a Reseller, there are several steps to take. You should login to your server via SSH and use these commands below:

useradd secondroot

passwd secondroot

usermod -aG wheel secondroot

echo "secondroot:all" >> /var/cpanel/resellers

Please take a note that "secondroot" should be changed into your wanted username. After performing the commands login into your WHM with root credentials and do the following:

1. Go to "Home";

2. Press on "Resellers";



3. Then press "Edit Reseller Nameservers and Privileges".
 

Here check all the settings for the new user in ACL the same as your root user has:



After saving the settings, you can login with your new user via WHM.