{"id":2238,"date":"2020-01-20T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2020-01-20T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:07:24","slug":"how-to-change-the-password-of-the-whm-root-account-in-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-change-the-password-of-the-whm-root-account-in-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the password of the WHM Root Account in WHM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can change the root user account password from WHM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WHM Root Account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>2<\/strong>. Go to <strong>Server Configuration<\/strong> &gt;&gt; <strong>Change Root Password<\/strong> or type <strong>Change Root<\/strong> in the search box, and the option will appear. Click on it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/whm-root-password-change-sidebar.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> Under <strong>Change Root Password<\/strong>, enter your new password or use the <strong>Generate Password<\/strong> option. Make sure that you copy your new password in a safe place.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/whm-root-password-change.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> Click the <strong>Change Password<\/strong> button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Your password will be changed, and you can log in to your root or your WHM Root account with your new one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can change the root user account password from WHM. &nbsp; 1. Login to your WHM Root Account. 2. Go to Server Configuration &gt;&gt; Change Root Password or type Change Root in the search box, and the option will appear. Click on it. 3. Under Change Root Password, enter your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whm-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}