{"id":12023,"date":"2021-10-18T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?p=12023"},"modified":"2024-04-23T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T12:09:09","slug":"force-users-change-password-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a WHM user, you can urge or force your hosting client to change his\/her password. The system will prompt them to change their user password once you do the configurations we have described in this tutorial.<\/p>\n<h2>To Force a User to Change Password<\/h2>\n<p>1. Log in to the WHM panel with your root account.<\/p>\n<p>2. Select the <strong>Account Functions<\/strong> option from the navigation menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1919\" height=\"789\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Click on <strong>Force Password Change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/whm_force_password_change.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A list of active user accounts on your server will appear.<\/p>\n<p>4. Select the box under the\u00a0<strong>Forced?<\/strong> column for user\/users to prompt them to change their password.<\/p>\n<p>5. Click the <strong>Submit<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/whm_force_pass_change_submit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is how you can urge or force your clients to change their password via WHM.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kb-box-focus kb-box-focus-rounded kb-box-focus-blue\"><strong>Note<\/strong>: If a user does not change the password, the <em>Forced?<\/em> checkbox will remain ticked.\u00a0WHM will continue to prompt the user to change the password and limit the features of the cPanel interface until the password is changed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a WHM user, you can urge or force your hosting client to change his\/her password. The system will prompt them to change their user password once you do the configurations we have described in this tutorial. 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