How To Manage Account Passwords In WHM?

This article provides information about managing passwords for accounts In Web hosting Manager.

Changing A Password

Any customer’s password can be changed by you on your own. In the event that one of your clients loses their password and is unable to log in, you will need to take this action. Furthermore, it is critical to quickly reset the password on the account in the event that it has been compromised in order to stop any fraudulent login attempts.

Follow these steps for changing a customer’s passwords:

• Login to Web Host Manager

• There is a search box on the upper left corner of the WHM screen, enter the word – ‘Password’ there and click on the option ‘Password Modification’ shown below.

• On the password modification page, select the account for which you want to change the password.

• In the ‘New Password’ text box, enter the new password.

• Enter the password again in the ‘Confirm Password’ text box.

• Select the option – Enable Digest Authentication in case the account utilizes the Web Disk with Windows.

• Click on ‘Change Password’ for the changes to take effect immediately.

Asking For A Password Change

• You can ask the customers to change their passwords when they log in the next time, follow the steps mentioned below:
• Login to WHM and in the search bar, enter ‘password’, you will see an option that says – ‘Force Password Change’.

• In the Forced column, tick the check box for the account for which you want to ask for changing the password and click on Submit.

So the next time when that account holder logs in to cPanel, he/she will get the request to change the account password.