New directadmin command line options let you suspend/unsuspend accounts from ssh as root: Suspend account (any account type): /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin --suspend-user user=fred Unsuspend account: /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin --unsuspend-user user=fred Suspend domain: /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin --suspend-domain domain=domain.com Unsuspend domain: /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin --unsuspend-domain domain=domain.com