delete main account or changing names

Hi, I am trying to delete or change the name of my main account as I am finally fed up with all the junk-mails.

I get the message:

Unable to delete the main email account

Details

You cannot delete the account thanh because it is linked to your system account


Does anyone know how I can change the name or even delete the account?

Cheers

Thanh

The main e-mailaccount cannot be changed or deleted. The only way to change it is to change the username of the entire user account which you can only do if you have root access to the server.

In case you do, run these commands on SSH:
# cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
# ./changeusername.sh oldusername newusername

Or of course, if you don't have the root access you need, ask your hosting company if they can do it for you.

Jeff

JTE said:

The main e-mailaccount cannot be changed or deleted. The only way to change it is to change the username of the entire user account which you can only do if you have root access to the server.

In case you do, run these commands on SSH:
# cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
# ./changeusername.sh oldusername newusername

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Nice, didn't know this existed (Bob is off to change his admin user to another name for security reasons....)

I don't think this actually deletes the admin user; check to be sure.

Jeff