{"id":1430,"date":"2021-05-19T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1430"},"modified":"2021-05-19T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:28:00","slug":"changing-your-root-password-on-a-plesk-server","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/articles\/changing-your-root-password-on-a-plesk-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing your root password on a Plesk server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have installed cPanel\/WHM to your PureSSD VPS server, then you can change the root password from within the Plesk interface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you have logged in to the Plesk management interface, select &#8220;<strong>Users<\/strong>&#8221; on the left-hand side of the page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1024x313.png\" alt=\"Plesk Users interface\" class=\"wp-image-1431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1024x313.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-768x235.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-50x15.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1.png 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose the name of the user that you wish to update the password for. In this case, we&#8217;ve selected <strong>Administrator<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1024x309.png\" alt=\"Plesk user management\" class=\"wp-image-1432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-1024x309.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-768x232.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2-50x15.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture2.png 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, select &#8220;<strong>Change Settings<\/strong>&#8220;. This will take you to a page with a number of options for the user. Here you will see an option to change the password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture3.png\" alt=\"Plesk Password Change steps\" class=\"wp-image-1433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture3.png 902w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture3-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture3-768x270.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture3-50x18.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also change your password from the homepage of Plesk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the top right corner of the page, just select your user and a drop down menu should appear. Select &#8220;<strong>Edit Profile<\/strong>&#8221; and the following page will have an option to change the password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture4.png\" alt=\"WHM Edit user profile\" class=\"wp-image-1434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture4.png 634w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture4-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture4-50x21.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have installed cPanel\/WHM to your PureSSD VPS server, then you can change the root password from within the Plesk interface. Step 1 When you have logged in to the Plesk management interface, select &#8220;Users&#8221; on the left-hand side of the page: Step 2 Choose the name of the user that you wish to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[30],"ht-kb-tag":[33,34,35,36],"class_list":["post-1430","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-servers","ht_kb_tag-plesk","ht_kb_tag-puressd-vps","ht_kb_tag-self-managed","ht_kb_tag-vps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Changing your root password on a Plesk server - Customer Support Guides - LCN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This article details how to change the root password on a Plesk server with cPanel\/WHM installed - Plesk 12 and cPanel\/WHM.\" \/>\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.lcn.com\/support\/articles\/changing-your-root-password-on-a-plesk-server\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Changing your root password on a Plesk server - 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