Remove ppp user with RestAPI

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Hi there, i have been trying to get this to work, but with no success and hope someone can share some info.

I am trying to remove a user from ppp where it is like xyz

this is what i have, but obviously its not working…
curl -k -u x:y -X POST http://abc.com/rest/ppp/active/remove [/ppp/active/ find name=“xyz”]


thanks
chris

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hey there, just checking if this is possible via curl command?

also to get last 50 entries filtered by a specific ppp user from the log from memory - is that possible with curl?

tx
chris

3

I am trying to remove a user from ppp where it is like xyz

When you are certain that only one entry exists for the user (ppp profile only-one=yes), you can DELETE by name:


curl -s -u x:y -X DELETE http://abc.com/rest/ppp/active/xyz

When multiple entries exist for the user (or could exist, e.g. only-one=no), you will have to query and run DELETE for every result:


for id in $(curl -s -u x:y http://abc.com/rest/ppp/active?name=xyz | jq -r '.[] | .".id"')
do
  curl -s -u x:y -X DELETE http://abc.com/rest/ppp/active/$id
done



also to get last 50 entries filtered by a specific ppp user from the log from memory - is that possible with curl?

From the documentation - https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/REST+API
And further: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/API#API-Queries


Regular expressions are not supported in API, so do not try to send a query with the ~ symbol

So filtering has to be done client side, to fetch the last 50 lines from log:


curl -s -u x:y http://abc.com/rest/log \
  | jq -r '.[] | select (.topics | contains("ppp")) | select (.message | (contains("xyz logged in") or contains("xyz logged out"))) | .message' \
  | tail -n 50