How To Manually Combine Two cPanel Accounts Into One

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How To Manually Combine Two cPanel Accounts Into One - See instructions for merging the data from one cPanel account into another.

How To Manually Combine Two cPanel Accounts Into One​

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Warnings
• We recommend that only experienced system administrators perform these steps. SSH access and root-level privileges are required to execute the commands included in this tutorial.

• We strongly recommend that you create backups for each cPanel account you are combining prior to starting the steps...

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[123Host]

Looks like a typo

 Then, use WHM >> Edit DNS Zone to increment the Serial Number in each copied domain's zone file by one. For example, if you see Serial Number 2019061000, change it to 2019061000.

The serial number isn't increased in the example

 

[mcongosto]

It would have been really useful to develop an easier tool for this before the change in charging fees. Most people had many separate accounts because it didn't matter, but now it makes sense to have them under just one.

this just makes it really hard to save money on the new fees. not nice.

regards,

 

[busystreet]

Everything went fine until I got to Step 13. When trying to update UID & GID I get the following errors.


I am copying from usacancer to acahome accounts so that usacancer will be a subdomain of the acahome account. they are currently 2 seperate accounts right now. They are located on the same server.

Instructions below
Step 13. Update the ownership values for the copied files
The following commands will identify any file under the Master account's home directory owned by the Secondary account's username and update user and group ownership from "account2" to "account1":

Note: Ensure to replace "$account1" with the username of the Master cPanel account and to replace "$account2" with the username of the Secondary cPanel account.

To update the UID:
Code:
find /home/$account1/ -user $account2 -exec chown $account1 {} \;
To update the GID:
Code:
find /home/$account1/ -group $account2 -exec chgrp $account1 {} \;

Any help on this on how to change file ownership of these files?

Thanx in advance.

Doug