Actions262
- Account Actions
- Return cPanel account summary
- Assign Account Enhancement
- Create Account Enhancement
- Create cPanel account
- Remove an Account Enhancement
- Enable forced password update
- Return cPanel accounts total number
- Return home directories list
- Return maximum accounts for license
- Return password strength
- Get scoped userdata
- Get upgrade opportunities
- Validate cPanel account Digest Authentication
- Validate MySQL Configuration file
- Return Account Enhancements
- Return root and cPanel accounts
- Return cPanel accounts
- Return suspended cPanel accounts
- Return suspended cPanel accounts and information
- Update multiple cPanel accounts
- Update Account Enhancement
- Update cPanel account
- Return cPanel account system privileges
- Update cPanel account password
- Delete cPanel account
- Enable or disable Digest Authentication
- Set scoped userdata
- Suspend cPanel account
- Unassign Account Enhancement
- Unsuspend cPanel account
- Remove UID or GID from tracked list
- Validate new cPanel account username
- Backup Actions
- Return backup configuration file data
- Update the system's backup configuration
- Return dates where backup files exist
- Add a backup destination
- Delete a backup destination
- Return a backup destination's settings
- Return a list of backup destinations
- Update backup destination settings
- Validate a backup destination
- Return Google Drive™ client ID credentials
- Create Google Drive™ OAuth redirect URI
- Return backup transport events' status
- Return backup files sent through transport
- Return backup files in the local disk
- Return backup files for the server's accounts
- Enable or disable backups
- Return backup configuration status
- Return users with a backup file
- Migrate server to new backup system
- Return start_background_pkgacct session log file
- Return start_background_pkgacct session state
- Return users and domains with backup metadata
- Return users with backup metadata
- Return cparchive files list
- Return backup modules list
- Start restoration
- Restore user account from backup
- Remove all completed restoration tasks
- Remove all failed restoration tasks
- Remove all pending restoration tasks
- Remove all restoration tasks
- Remove completed restoration task
- Remove pending restoration task
- Validate restoration queue is active
- Return active restoration tasks list
- Return completed restoration tasks list
- Return pending restoration tasks list
- Return restoration tasks list
- Restore account backup
- Back up an account using the pkgacct script
- Restore one cPanel account from a backup
- Enable or disable legacy backups
- Validate username during restoration
- Database Actions
- Validate MySQL status before upgrade
- Return MySQL or MariaDB upgrade status
- Return MySQL version
- Return MySQL database optimizations
- Return available MySQL versions
- Return latest MySQL version
- Return MySQL users
- Return MySQL databases
- Return MySQL databases and users for account
- Create remote MySQL profile
- Create remote MySQL profile via SSH
- Delete remote MySQL profile
- Start remote MySQL profile activation
- Return remote MySQL profile activation
- Return remote MySQL profile
- Return remote MySQL profiles
- Update remote MySQL profile
- Validate remote MySQL profile connection
- Update MySQL database name
- Update MySQL username
- Update PostgreSQL database name
- Update PostgreSQL username
- Update MySQL root password
- Update MySQL user password
- Update PostgreSQL user password
- Start background MySQL upgrade
- Update the servers SQL configuration.
- DNS Actions
- Enable domain's DNSSEC key
- Create domain's DNSSEC zone key
- Create DNS zone
- Create DNS zone record
- Return whether DNS cluster server can share records
- Create domain alias
- Create subdomain
- Disable domain's DNSSEC key
- Delete domain
- Disable DNSSEC on domain
- Return domain's DNS zone configuration
- Update DNS zone record
- Enable DNSSEC on domain
- Export domain's DNSKEY record value
- Export DNS zones in zone file format
- Export domain's DNSSEC key
- Return domain's DS record
- Return current user's nameservers
- Return specific line from domain's DNS configuration
- Validate local server is authoritative
- Import DNSSEC key
- Return `ALIAS` DNS record availability & resolver
- Return HTTPS DNS record support information
- Return SVCB DNS record support information
- Delete DNS zone
- Return domain's mail exchanger records
- Return server's DNS zones
- Return nameserver's IP address
- Return nameserver's IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
- Update a DNS zone
- Return a parsed DNS zone
- Remove DNSSEC key
- Delete DNS zone record
- Restore DNS zone to default values
- Return domain's IP address
- Create mail exchanger record
- Update remote DNS server's nameserver software
- Enable NSEC3 semantics for domain
- Create unbound DNS resolver
- Update server's resolver nameservers
- Enable NSEC semantics for domain
- Update default nameservers
- Update reverse DNS cache
- Update /etc/userdomains file
- Domain Actions
- Return additional domain conversion details
- Return additional domain data
- Return conversion status for additional domain
- Start additional domain conversion
- Return current user's additional domains
- Return additional domains conversion queue
- Return domain user information
- Return all domains information
- Return domain owner
- IP & Network Actions
- Add IP addresses
- Remove IP address
- Update cPanel account disk quota
- Return all cPanel accounts disk usage
- Return public IP address of private IP address
- Return shared IP address
- Remove IPv6 address range from account
- Add IPv6 address range to accounts
- Add IPv6 address range
- Update IPv6 address range name or note
- Return available IPv6 address ranges
- Remove IPv6 address range
- Return IPv6 address usage
- Update cPanel account bandwidth quota
- Return server's IP addresses
- Return server's IPv6 addresses
- Validate public IP address for NAT
- Register NAT IP address to public IP address
- Validate cPanel account quotas
- Update domain or cPanel account IP address
- Return cPanel account bandwidth information
- Mail Actions
- Apply a DMARC record to a domain
- Add block on emails from specific countries
- Add block on emails from specific domains
- Return Greylisting trust status of server netblock
- Return Greylisting IP addresses of mail providers
- Return Greylisting mail providers
- Update Greylisting new mail provider handling
- Return Greylisting status
- Add mail provider to Greylisting trusted hosts
- Add mail provider to Greylisting non-trusted hosts
- Add IP address to Greylisting trusted hosts
- Remove IP address from Greylisting trusted hosts
- Disable Greylisting
- Disable domain's DKIM records
- (Deprecated) Disable SNI mail services for domains
- Return email delivery records by search criteria
- Return cPanel account email tracking statistics
- Return all cPanel accounts email tracking statistics
- Enable Greylisting
- Enable domain's DKIM records
- Enable SNI mail services for domains
- Validate domain's DKIM keys
- Repair Exim configuration file
- Remove email account messages by Dovecot query
- Remove email account messages by mailbox GUID
- Return domain's DKIM private key
- Return server mail queue contents
- Create email account mobile profile configuration
- Get the server's default DMARC record
- Return cPanel account mailboxes status by name
- Return cPanel account mailboxes status list
- Return cPanel account unique email recipients
- Return all cPanel account unique email recipients
- Return cPanel account forward destination
- Add cPanel account to outbound email hold queue
- Install existing private key to DKIM record
- Install domain SPF record
- Return server SNI support status
- Return blocked email countries list
- Return blocked email domains list
- Return cPanel account's email accounts
- Return Greylisting settings
- Return domain's SNI mail services status
- Repair misconfigured email settings
- Return Greylisting deferred incoming email triplets
- Return Greylisting trusted hosts
- Rebuild mail SNI configuration files
- Release cPanel account queued outgoing emails
- Remove domains' DMARC records.
- Update Greylisting settings
- Update Apache SpamAssassin™ configuration
- Set the server's default DMARC record
- Add manual mail exchanger redirect record
- Update cPanel account email forward destination
- Suspend cPanel account outgoing email
- Stop cPanel account IMAP and POP3 connections
- Remove block on emails from specific countries
- Remove block on emails from specific domains
- Remove manual mail exchanger redirect record
- Unsuspend account outgoing email
- Validate DKIM records
- Validate DMARC records
- Validate Exim configuration
- Validate domain PTR records
- Validate domain SPF records
- Validate Exim configure file syntax
- Package Actions
- Check if a plugin feature is ready for use
- Disable feature locally
- Enable feature locally
- Return hosting plan extension templates
- Add cPanel account feature list overrides
- Create hosting plan
- Add hosting plan extension
- Update user hosting plan
- Create feature list
- Delete feature list
- Remove hosting plan extension
- Update hosting plan
- Return dynamicui file
- (Deprecated) Get available feature lists
- Return current user's available feature lists info
- Return all features
- Return feature list configuration
- Return current user's available feature lists
- Return feature lists by package type
- Return cPanel accounts' feature settings
Database → Update MySQL username
AI-generatedSummary
Rename a MySQL database user by specifying the current username and the new desired username. Optionally specify the owner of the database user if needed.
Inputs
- Oldname (required) — The database user's current name.
- Newname (required) — The database user's new name. If database prefix is enabled, this must include the prefix for the account.
- Cpuser — The database user's owner.
Output shape
a single response object containing the result of the rename operation from the WHM API
The output reflects the WHM API response for renaming a MySQL user, which may include success status or error details. The operation uses query string parameters for input and returns a direct API response without pagination.