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Root was logged into whostmgrd using following authentication service: system

Posted by azn_romeo_4u, 03-12-2010, 07:42 PM

What does that mean? Is that a login from cpanel or whm? Also is there a log of all users that have logged into whm and/or cpanel?

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Posted by madaboutlinux, 03-13-2010, 10:32 AM

It states that someone was logged in as user "root" in WHM. And to check who logged into cPanel and WHM, you need to check the cPanel access logs at

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Posted by Tomcatf14, 01-11-2011, 03:27 AM

I got an alert this morning that the server is logging in as root to itself:- Root was logged into whostmgrd using following authentication service: system How can this happen? The root was logged in by the server IP itself.

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Posted by lanquest-hosting, 05-16-2011, 02:58 PM

I guess the question should be:- What WHM setting is responsible for these messages?

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