{"id":16798,"date":"2024-05-21T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/how-to-force-a-user-to-change-password-from-whm\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T03:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:23:45","slug":"how-to-force-a-user-to-change-password-from-whm","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-force-a-user-to-change-password-from-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may compel your <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hostvento.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Web hosting<\/span><\/a><\/strong> client to update their password as a WHM user. After you make the adjustments outlined in this guide, the system will ask them to update their user password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To Force a User to Change Password<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Log in to the WHM panel with your root account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Select the&nbsp;<strong>Account Functions<\/strong>&nbsp;option from the navigation menu.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12184\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>3. Click on&nbsp;<strong>Force Password Change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/whm_force_password_change.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13446\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A list of active user accounts on your server will appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Select the box under the&nbsp;<strong>Forced?<\/strong>&nbsp;column for user\/users to prompt them to change their password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Click the&nbsp;<strong>Submit<\/strong>&nbsp;button.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/whm_force_pass_change_submit.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13447\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>That is how you can urge or force your clients to change their password via WHM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: If a user does not change the password, the&nbsp;<em>Forced?<\/em>&nbsp;checkbox will remain ticked.&nbsp;WHM will continue to prompt the user to change the password and limit the features of the cPanel interface until the password is changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may compel your Web hosting client to update their password as a WHM user. After you make the adjustments outlined in this guide, the system will ask them to update their user password. To Force a User to Change Password 1. Log in to the WHM panel with your root account. 2. Select the&nbsp;Account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16798","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21282,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16798\/revisions\/21282"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}