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Quick WHM/cPanel All email passwords reset

You generally don’t want to use this script. This is a last resort, when all mailbox passwords for the entire account need to be changed. For this script to work, you need root access to your WHM/cPanel server. This could ruin everything, be warned!

Here be dragons!

#!/bin/bash
newpass='SomeStr0ngPasswordGoesHere!'
accountname='example'
domainname='example.com'

uapi --user=$accountname Email list_pops \
  | grep email \
  | awk '{print$2}' | awk -F\@ '{print$1}' | \
  while read m; do
    echo changing password for $m
    uapi --user=@accountname Email passwd_pop domain=$domainname email=$m password=$newpass
  done
echo done

Here are the links to the official API docs:

  • https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/DD/UAPI+Functions+-+Email%3A%3Apasswd_pop
  • https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/DD/UAPI+Functions+-+Email%3A%3Alist_pops

Is there a better way to do this? probably

Can I randomize the password? sure, but how will you send the new passwords to your users?

Hope it helps!

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Webmin/VirtualMin with Let’s Encrypt

Virtualmin team said the next version of Virtualmin/Webmin will automate most of the letsencrypt setup. Meanwhile there’s an ongoing conversation about it in the forums

My setup:
./letsencrypt-auto certonly --webroot --webroot-path /usr/share/nginx/html -d my.vmin.server

Then in Webmin > Webmin Configuration > SSL Encryption set:

  • Private key file to /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.vmin.server/privkey.pem
  • Certificate file to /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.vmin.server/fullchain.pem

Add a monthly crontab job to renew the certificate:
/usr/local/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto certonly \
--webroot --webroot-path /usr/share/nginx/html -d my.vmin.server \
--renew-by-default \
--agree-tos

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Quickly Start a Django Project

There are many things I like to do when starting a django project. I started to compile those in a script I’m using. The gist is linked below.

New Django Project.sh

#!/bin/bash
# 
# Author: Abdallah Deeb 
# Requirements: python, pip, virtualenv, virutalenvwrapper, git
#
# Edit the following 2 lines
PROJECTNAME=proj
APPNAME=myapp
if [ -n "$2" ]
then 
  APPNAME="$2"
fi
if [ -n "$1" ]
then 
  PROJECTNAME=$1
fi

source `which virtualenvwrapper.sh` 

echo "Starting a new Django project: $PROJECTNAME"
# Make a virtualenv
mkvirtualenv $PROJECTNAME

# Install latest django and start the project/app
pip install django
django-admin.py startproject $PROJECTNAME
cd $PROJECTNAME
django-admin.py startapp $APPNAME
mv $PROJECTNAME conf

# conf is much nicer than projname
replace $PROJECTNAME conf -- manage.py conf/settings.py conf/wsgi.py conf/urls.py
chmod +x manage.py
workon $PROJECTNAME

# Initialize and use git
git init
git add .
git commit -a -m 'initial commit'

and the raw gist download

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Install Maven Script

Just a quick install script. Use it:

wget http://v.gd/installmvn | bash

and here’s the gist of it

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Match SSL Certificate to Key and CSR

Renewing an SSL certificate is usually straight forward. But sometimes you’re not sure which CSR to use. Or if you need to generate a new CSR, which SSL key. Here are the commands I use to verify the certificate related files:

openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in mydomain.crt | openssl md5
openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in mydomain.key | openssl md5
openssl req -noout -modulus -in mydomain.csr | openssl md5

The MD5 hash should match.
You could use a bash script to search a directory for a specific MD5 hash. For example: 

for f in $(ls $SOMEDIR); do echo $f; openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in $SOMEDIR$f | openssl md5 | grep "MYMD5HASH"; done

I guess the above could use some work 🙂

for the CLI-phobics check out this certificate key matcher

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