{"id":14358,"date":"2021-10-18T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=14358"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:45:44","slug":"force-users-change-password-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Watch this video for a step by step process on How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ypAN3SnhmMM\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<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.in\/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.in\/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.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/whm_force_pass_change_submit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\n  \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"VideoObject\",\n  \"name\": \"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM? | MilesWeb\",\n  \"description\": \"\u2705Here's an in-depth guide on how to force a user to change password from WHM:  https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/  Give a thumbs up \ud83d\udc4d if you liked this video.  Subscribe to our channel and get notified for all the latest videos.  Contents of this video: 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - Important Note  \ud83d\udd17To know more about web hosting visit our website - https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\",\n  \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ypAN3SnhmMM\/default.jpg\",\n  \"uploadDate\": \"2021-10-30T10:55:34Z\",\n  \"duration\": \"PT1M53S\",\n  \"embedUrl\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ypAN3SnhmMM\",\n  \"interactionCount\": \"6\"\n}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this video for a step by step process on How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,229],"tags":[2063,666,2588,1971,1948],"class_list":["post-14358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","placeholder-for-hentry","category-howtos","category-whm","tag-change-account-password","tag-cpanel-account-password","tag-force-change-password-whm","tag-password-change","tag-password-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Want your users to change the passwords of their accounts? This tutorial will help you utilize the Force Password Change tool of WHM to make them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Want your users to change the passwords of their accounts? This tutorial will help you utilize the Force Password Change tool of WHM to make them.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-18T15:02:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-01T06:45:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Prasad Khartadkar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Prasad Khartadkar\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Prasad Khartadkar\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9138a9488172a8d0aa2d4f40878d83e\"},\"headline\":\"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-18T15:02:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-01T06:45:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":187,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/whm_account_functions.png\",\"keywords\":[\"change account password\",\"cPanel account password\",\"Force Change Password WHM\",\"password change\",\"password security\"],\"articleSection\":[\"How-Tos\",\"Web Host Manager\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/\",\"name\":\"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/whm_account_functions.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-18T15:02:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-01T06:45:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9138a9488172a8d0aa2d4f40878d83e\"},\"description\":\"Want your users to change the passwords of their accounts? This tutorial will help you utilize the Force Password Change tool of WHM to make them.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/whm_account_functions.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/whm_account_functions.png\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/force-users-change-password-whm\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/\",\"name\":\"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9138a9488172a8d0aa2d4f40878d83e\",\"name\":\"Prasad Khartadkar\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/Prasad-K.-1-150x150.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/Prasad-K.-1-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/Prasad-K.-1-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Prasad Khartadkar\"},\"description\":\"Prasad is a business grad specialized in Marketing. He has garnered experience as a technical content writer and a digital marketer that he brings out in his work. He likes reading classics and travel in his free time.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milesweb.in\\\/hosting-faqs\\\/author\\\/prasad-khartadkar\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?","description":"Want your users to change the passwords of their accounts? This tutorial will help you utilize the Force Password Change tool of WHM to make them.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?","og_description":"Want your users to change the passwords of their accounts? This tutorial will help you utilize the Force Password Change tool of WHM to make them.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/","og_site_name":"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb","article_published_time":"2021-10-18T15:02:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-01T06:45:44+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Prasad Khartadkar","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Prasad Khartadkar","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/"},"author":{"name":"Prasad Khartadkar","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/c9138a9488172a8d0aa2d4f40878d83e"},"headline":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?","datePublished":"2021-10-18T15:02:13+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-01T06:45:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/"},"wordCount":187,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png","keywords":["change account password","cPanel account password","Force Change Password WHM","password change","password security"],"articleSection":["How-Tos","Web Host Manager"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/","name":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png","datePublished":"2021-10-18T15:02:13+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-01T06:45:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/c9138a9488172a8d0aa2d4f40878d83e"},"description":"Want your users to change the passwords of their accounts? This tutorial will help you utilize the Force Password Change tool of WHM to make them.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/whm_account_functions.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/force-users-change-password-whm\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How to Force a User to Change Password from WHM?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/","name":"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/c9138a9488172a8d0aa2d4f40878d83e","name":"Prasad Khartadkar","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Prasad-K.-1-150x150.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Prasad-K.-1-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Prasad-K.-1-150x150.jpg","caption":"Prasad Khartadkar"},"description":"Prasad is a business grad specialized in Marketing. He has garnered experience as a technical content writer and a digital marketer that he brings out in his work. He likes reading classics and travel in his free time.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.milesweb.in"],"url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/author\/prasad-khartadkar\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14571,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions\/14571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}