Resetting cpanel password.

Published by: smith 2010-03-10

Usually i have found that when making a new install of vb the access to database, ftp and cpanel share the same password. If i change the password for cpanel either in cpanel or via whm will it affect the password settings you put into the config.php (includes) or will i have to edit that as well to reflect the change.

Server Management Tool::
Reset Cpanel Password. First Time Users. To reset your Control Panel password please login to you with your new Cpanel password. Customer/Registration
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Lol, you are right. At first i was wondering what you were saying but then i looked in my little book where i keep all my info on logins and i can see that i have two options. *what an idiot*. still i have never changed passwords before so it is better to ask then guess :D

After Site Outage, Cant Use Domain::
Cant Use Domain Passwords have all been changed - HIGLIGHTS: Cpanel, Can39t, Password, Site, Update, Logg, please reset the Cpanel password so that I
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cpanel-2004-01-01::
The feature Allow cPanel users to reset their password via email, found in next to Allow cPanel users to reset their password via email and save
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Thanks for the quick reply anyway Zachery and Scott.Mc

When you go into cPanel-Mysql Databases and add the new user and database(aswell as add the user to the database) you should use that as pointed out above.

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Cpanel recently announced a new vulnerability for their servers for the password reset option. The feature Allow cPanel users to reset their password via email
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You should always do this when using databases and not the main one as take for example if you are not running suexec and someone gains access to some form of remote command execution on your account via the webserver user, they can simply read your configuration file and have your cPanel password, which esculates them from a basic webshell to a user account.

You should be making a mysql username (inside of the mysql tab in cpanel) instead of using the cpanel username for your database access :)