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How to reset an accounts package/plan using the command line

Eric Delorme
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Introduction

There may be a need to reset the package for a number of users because the settings were changed for a particular package and want to automate the change using a script.

 

Procedure

The API documentation at the following would be needed in this case: WHM API 1 Functions - changepackage

 

The example provided is:

whmapi1 changepackage user=username pkg=package1

If you need to loop through users that have the same pacakge then you need to get a list of those users. That can be obtained by doing something like:

grep -H ^PLAN=myplan /var/cpanel/users/*| cut -d: -f1 |cut -d/ -f5

Of course, replace "myplan" with the package/plan name. That will output a list of users on that plan/package.

Then you can simply write a script to loop through that list of users and set to the same package/plan.

#!/bin/bash

package=myplan
for user in $(grep -H ^PLAN=$package /var/cpanel/users/*| cut -d: -f1 |cut -d/ -f5)
do
whmapi1 changepackage user=$user pkg=$package
done

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