How to change owner of DNS zone?

CanSpace

• March 16, 2017 15:55

I have several domains that were manually added by clicking "Add DNS Zone" in WHM. These zones/domains are now all owned by root. How do I manually change the owner to another cPanel user, so that when I migrate that user (ie make a full cpanel backup and restore it elsewhere) it also migrates these DNS zones along with it. I saw this thread which asks the same question: Change DNS zone ownership But I have a few questions: a) The reply says to add the zone to /var/cpanel/users/CPUSER and then run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomains - Do I also need to remove the line for the corresponding domain from /var/cpanel/users/root? - The CPUSER in question already has a few hundred addon domains ie DNS1-DNS100. Do I just manually add DNS101? Does it matter if I skip a number by accident? - What are the XDNS lines I see in the /var/cpanel/users/CPUSER file? Are these relevant? - When I run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomains, will that update /etc/userdomains?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 17, 2017 16:47

  Hello,

  - Do I also need to remove the line for the corresponding domain from /var/cpanel/users/root?

  
  Yes. The entries may also exist in /var/cpanel/users/system if you do not see them in /var/cpanel/users/root.

  - The CPUSER in question already has a few hundred addon domains ie DNS1-DNS100. Do I just manually add DNS101? Does it matter if I skip a number by accident?

  
  Yes, you just add in the entry with the next number. It's okay if you skip ahead a number, but you should avoid duplicating a number.

  - What are the XDNS lines I see in the /var/cpanel/users/CPUSER file? Are these relevant?

  
  Those are domain names that were part of the account in the past, but have since been removed. You can ignore these entries.

  - When I run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomains, will that update /etc/userdomains?

  
  Yes. Thank you.

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