UAPI Functions - Postgresql::rename_user

Description

This function renames a PostgreSQL® database user.

Examples


 cPanel or Webmail Session URL

https://hostname.example.com:2083/cpsess##########/execute/Postgresql/rename_user?oldname=dbuser&newname=dbuser2&password=12345luggage

 LiveAPI PHP Class

$cpanel new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
// Renames database user "dbuser" into "dbuser2" with password "12345luggage"
$rename_user $cpanel->uapi(
    'Postgresql''rename_user',
    array(
        'oldname'  => 'dbuser',
        'newname'  => 'dbuser2',
        'password' => '12345luggage',
          )
);

 LiveAPI Perl Module

my $cpliveapi = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
# Renames database user "dbuser" into "dbuser2" with password "12345luggage"
my $rename_user $cpliveapi->uapi(
    'Postgresql''rename_user',
    {
        'oldname'    => 'database',
        'newname'    => 'database2',
        'password'   => '12345luggage',
    }
);

 cPanel Template Toolkit

<!-- Renames database user "dbuser" into "dbuser2" with password "12345luggage" -->
[% data = execute( 'Postgresql', 'rename_user', { oldname => 'dbuser', newname => 'dbuser2', password => '12345luggage'} ); %]

 Command Line

uapi --user=username Postgresql rename_user oldname=dbuser newname-dbuser2 password=12345luggage

 

Notes:

  • You must URI-encode values.
  • username represents your account-level username.

 Output (JSON)

{
  "messages": null,
  "errors": null,
  "status": 1,
  "metadata": {
      
  },
  "data": null
}

 

Note:

Use cPanel's API Shell interface (Home >> Advanced >> API Shell) to directly test cPanel API calls.

 

Parameters

 Parameter 

Type

Description

Possible values

Example

oldname

string

Required

The database user's current name.

A valid string.

Note:

 If database prefixing is enabled, this parameter must include the database prefix for the account. 

dbuser

newname

string

Required

The database user's new name.

A valid string.

Note:

If database prefixing is enabled, this parameter must include the database prefix for the account.

dbuser2

password

 string 

Required

 The database user's new password. 

A secure password.

 12345luggage 

 

Returns

This function only returns metadata.

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