Able to terminate all accounts on server?

[kujoez]

Hello, I currently have a server with over 1000 cPanel accounts on it and I wish to terminate all of them if possible. I tried using the Terminate Multiple Accounts option in WHM but haven't had any luck (it times out when I try to do more than 20 accounts or so) and it freezes my browser for a few minutes when clicking a handful of checkboxes. Is there an easy method to terminate all of the accounts without doing a fresh install?

[Spiral]

From the shell, /scripts/killacct (username)

The following could do some pretty nasty damage to a server
but fortunately it must be executed as root to actually work
but even still I am a little leary to post this below but since
you asked, a small script to kill all accounts on the server
at once and bypass the normal approval prompting:

DO NOT EXECUTE THIS SCRIPT IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO
WIPE THE ENTIRE SERVER CLEAN OF CPANEL ACCOUNTS AND
YOU ARE ADVISED TO FIRST MAKE GOOD BACKUPS!

#!/bin/bash
IFS="$"

ls /var/cpanel/users | while read KUSER; do
  echo 'y' | /scripts/killacct ${KUSER}
done

Note that depending on the size of the files in the accounts and or activity logfiles,
some accounts may take longer than others to delete and may not necessarily be
hung but just regular processing deleting large accounts. That said, you stand a
much better chance of things working from the shell than from the WHM interface
when talking about such a large task as deleting 1000 accounts at once.

[kujoez]

Thanks for the reply! The server in question is my old server and all of the accounts were backed up before and after they were migrated to the new server.

[Spiral]

Originally Posted by kujoez

Thanks for the reply! The server in question is my old server and all of the accounts were backed up before and after they were migrated to the new server.

Then have fun! I've used the simple script above to wipe out quite a few
old servers after migrations so that should take care of it for you.

Basically just reads in the list of cpanel accounts from the system and
executes a killacct against each login name ... simple as that!

Nice thing is if for some odd reason the wipe process hangs anywhere,
you'll pickup where you left off when you start the script again and
don't have to redo any previous account deletions because once
an account is deleted, they will no longer be read as a valid cpanel login
the next time the script is executed.

[kujoez]

Very nice. I'm glad I executed it from my home server because this looks like it will take a while.

[kujoez]

Wow! Took almost 6 hours!