I tried to ssh to my new account and it said it was disabled

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SSH access details are now in our SSH guide.

Short answer: SSH may need to be enabled for your account. Open a support ticket to request access, or use cPanel > Terminal for instant command-line access without SSH being enabled. Connect on port 7005 with your cPanel credentials.

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