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Resellers
Reseller Account Management

Delete reseller and reseller's cPanel accounts

This function deletes a reseller and all of the reseller's cPanel accounts.

Warning:

  • You cannot recover deleted accounts. Use this function with extreme caution.
  • This function deletes the reseller account and all of the accounts that the reseller owns.
  • To remove reseller privileges from an account but not delete the reseller's account or any accounts that the reseller owns, use the WHM API 1 unsetupreseller function.
get/terminatereseller

Query parameters

terminatereseller1 | 0 required
Example:1

Whether to terminate the reseller's main account.

  • 1 — Terminate.
  • 0 — Do not terminate.
userstring username required
Example:username

The reseller account's username.

Response

HTTP Request was successful.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "acct": [
      {
        "output": {
          "raw": "Running pre removal script (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/prekillacct)......DoneCollecting\nDomain Name and IP...User: example Domain: example.com\n...DoneLocking account and setting shell to nologin...Locking\npassword for user example. passwd: Success ...DoneKilling\nall processes owned by user......DoneRemoving\nSessions.........DoneRemoving Suspended Info.........DoneCleaning\nVirtfs.........DoneRemoving Web Logs......DoneRemoving\nBandwidth Files......DoneRemoving Email Sending\nLimits Cache......DoneRemoving DKIM keys......DoneRemoving\nCrontab......DoneRemoving HTTP Virtual Hosts...Removed\nthe following non-SSL virtual hosts: example.com\nRemoved the following SSL virtual hosts: ...DoneRemoving\nftp Virtual Hosts......Done Removing user''''s\nweb content directory symlinks......DoneRemoving\nMySQL databases and users......DoneRemoving PostgreSQL\ndatabases and users......DoneRemoving User & Group.......Success...Done\nRemoving DNS Entries...example.com => deleted\nfrom hostname. ...Done Removing Email Setup...Removing\n/etc/valiases/example.com ...Done Removing mailman\nlists......Done Updating Databases......Done Removing\nbandwidth limits......Done Removing Counter Data......Done\nAdding IP back to the IP address pool...System\nhas 3 free ips. ...Done Removing user''''s cPanel\nDatabases & Updating......Done Reloading Services......Done\nRemoving mail and service configs... ...Done Removing\nLogaholic Webstats...Id: TQ:TaskQueue:129 ...Done\nSending Contacts......Done Updating internal databases...Updating\nftp passwords for example Purging ftp user example\nFtp password files updated. Ftp vhost passwords\nsynced ...Done Running post removal scripts (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/legacypostkillacct,\n/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/postkillacct)......Done\nAccount Removal Complete!!!...example account\nremoved...Done\n"
        },
        "reason": "username account removed",
        "result": 1,
        "user": "username"
      }
    ]
  },
  "metadata": {
    "command": "terminatereseller",
    "reason": "OK",
    "result": 1,
    "version": 1
  }
}