This guide illustrates how to enable leech protection for a directory using cPanel. This feature allows you to stop your customers from giving out or widely posting their passwords to a restricted area of your site.
Let us follow the steps:
- Log in to cPanel.
- Select the “Leech Protection” option from the “Security” category.
- Select and open the directory you wish to protect.
- Select the “Edit” button.
- Enter the number of logins allowed per user in two hours.
- When a user’s account is hacked, type a URL to redirect them to another web page.
- Select the check box to send the email alerts.
- Type an e-mail address provided in the box.
- Disable the compromised accounts. Users that activate leech protection will have their passwords disabled and their accounts suspended by cPanel. Reset their passwords to reactivate their accounts.
- Click on the “Enable” option.
- You will get the message that Leech Protection has been enabled.
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