Account Management
Delete cPanel account
This function deletes a cPanel or WHM account.
get/removeacct
Query parameters
usernamestring required
Example:username
The account's username.
keepdns0 | 1
Whether to retain the account's DNS entries.
- 1 — Retain DNS entries.
- 0 — Delete DNS entries.
userstring
Example:username
The account's username.
Response
HTTP Request was successful.
Example response
{
"metadata": {
"command": "removeacct",
"output": {
"raw": "\"raw\":\"Running pre removal script (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/prekillacct)......Done\\nCollecting Domain Name and IP...User: example\\nDomain: example.com\\n...Done\\nLocking account and setting shell to nologin...Locking password for user example.\\npasswd: Success\\n...Done\\nKilling all processes owned by user......Done\\nRemoving Sessions.........Done\\nRemoving Suspended Info.........Done\\nCleaning Virtfs.........Done\\nRemoving Web Logs......Done\\nRemoving Bandwidth Files......Done\\nRemoving Email Sending Limits Cache......Done\\nRemoving DKIM keys......Done\\nRemoving Crontab......Done\\nRemoving HTTP Virtual Hosts...Removed the following non-SSL virtual hosts: example.com\\nRemoved the following SSL virtual hosts:\\n...Done\\nRemoving ftp Virtual Hosts......Done\\nRemoving user's web content directory symlinks......Done\\nRemoving MySQL databases and users......Done\\nRemoving PostgreSQL databases and users......Done\\nRemoving User & Group.......Success...Done\\nRemoving DNS Entries...example.com => deleted from hostname. \\n...Done\\nRemoving Email Setup...Removing /etc/valiases/example.com\\n...Done\\nRemoving mailman lists......Done\\nUpdating Databases......Done\\nRemoving bandwidth limits......Done\\nRemoving Counter Data......Done\\nAdding IP back to the IP address pool...System has 2 free ips.\\n...Done\\nRemoving user's cPanel Databases & Updating......Done\\nReloading Services......Done\\nRemoving mail and service configs...\\n...Done\\nSending Contacts......Done\\nUpdating internal databases...Updating ftp passwords for example\\nPurging ftp user example\\nFtp password files updated.\\nFtp vhost passwords synced\\n...Done\\nRunning post removal scripts (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/legacypostkillacct, /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/postkillacct)......Done\\nAccount Removal Complete!!!...example account removed...Done\\n\""
},
"reason": "example account removed",
"result": 1,
"version": 1
}
}