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Upgrading and Downgrading DirectAdmin users.

Upgrade a User to a Reseller. Assume that user name is ‘staysafe’.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
./user_to_reseller.sh staysafe

Upgrading a Reseller to an Admin. Assume that reseller name is ‘bdtopten’.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/bdtopten
perl -pi -e 's/usertype=reseller/usertype=admin/' user.conf
cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin
perl -pi -e 's/^bdtopten\n//' reseller.list
echo bdtopten>> admin.list

Downgrading a Reseller to a User. Assume that reseller name is ‘kitedubd’ and ‘kitedubd’ has no users.

  1. Change user type at user.conf 
    vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/kitedubd/user.conf
  2. Change as follows 
    usertype=user
  3. Update admin reseller list, remove ‘kitedubd’ 
    vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/reseller.list
  4. Update admin user list, add ‘kitedubd’ 
    vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/admin/users.list
  5. Done!

 

 

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How to change UID and GID? chown

UID = User ID
GID = Group ID

We can change UID and GID with command ‘chown’ login with SSH.

chown -R newuserID:newgroupID folder_name

For example, to change myfolder UID and GID

chown -R bdhostit:bdhostit myfolder

or to change maildir UID and GID. Here, “bdhostit” is account’s username.

chown -R bdhostit:mail /home/bdhostit/domains/Maildir