To enable jailed shell or SSH access to CPanel user. You can run below command. chsh -s /usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell username Kindly replace username with CPanel username. It will show output like below [root@ ~]# chsh -s /usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell abcde23 Changing shell for abcde23. Shell changed. [root@ ~]#