How use API to --disable-email

Virtualmin
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Hey All,

I’d really like some help on this, thought it would be a no-brainer, but my brain must be getting in the way…

  • I created a bunch of domains (90 virtual servers)
  • all the “Administration users” had email boxes created for them
  • I need to “disable the Primary email”
  • wrote this cool script in debian shell script:

virtualmin modify-user --domain foo01.com --user foo01 --disable-email

virtualmin modify-user --domain foo02.com --user foo02 --disable-email

…

virtualmin modify-user --domain foo89.com --user foo89 --disable-email

virtualmin modify-user --domain foo90.com --user foo90 --disable-email

  • I logged into virtualmin as root
  • but I get the following error:

ERROR: The user foo01 is the owner of server foo01.com, and so cannot be modified.

  • I know I can disable it from EDIT USER screen in the control panel
  • but I sure hoped I could just do it quickly using a shell script

Can anyone help me? Thx!

2

Or, if that’s not possible, can I change the Server Template Apache Website section, then run the “Regenerate Apache VirtualHost Information” script over in the examples???

#!/bin/sh
doms=virtualmin list-domains --with-feature web --name-only
for dom in $doms; do
virtualmin disable-feature --domain $dom --web --webalizer --logrotate
virtualmin enable-feature --domain $dom --web --webalizer --logrotate
done

3

I’ve been talking to Jamie about how to do that… I’ll let you know once I determine a way to make that work :slight_smile:

-Eric

4

Okay, so I have good news, and bad news.

The good news is that it shouldn’t work that way, and it sounds like you found a bug! We’re thankful for that, and it’ll be fixed soon.

The bad news though is that it won’t be fixed until the next Virtualmin version is released, which is probably a few weeks away.

If you’re in a bind, and hoping to make those changes sooner – you could always edit /usr/{libexec|share}/webmin/virtual-server/modify-user, jump to line 247, and comment out this line:

$user->{'domainowner'} && &usage("The user $username is the owner of server $domain, and so cannot be modified");

That’ll remove the check that’s preventing you from running that command.

-Eric

5

Wow, impressive reply, thx so much! : )