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To change the root password for your VPS<\/a> via WHM: <\/p>\n NOTE 1<\/b>: We recommend choosing a strong password and updating it regularly. Your password must be at least 8 characters long and contain at least 1 uppercase character, 1 lowercase character, 1 number, and 1 symbol.<\/p>\n NOTE 2<\/b>: Changing password via WHM doesn\u2019t require a server reboot.<\/p>\n If you can\u2019t access your WHM, contact our hosting support via help center<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0ticket system, and<\/a>\u00a0we will change the password for you (the server will need to be rebooted).<\/p>\n With this, you can successfully change your root password via WHM. Happy Hosting\ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To change the root password for your VPS via WHM: 1. Log into WHM. 2. Go to\u00a0Server Configuration\u00a0>\u00a0Change Root Password\u00a0menu. 3. Enter the new password in\u00a0New root Password\u00a0and\u00a0Confirm Password fields (you may use the built-in password Generator option to create a strong password). 4. Once done, click the\u00a0Change Password\u00a0button: NOTE 1: We recommend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[37,34,43,47],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-whm","tag-guide","tag-web-hosting","tag-website-management","tag-whm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Log into WHM.
\n2. Go to\u00a0Server Configuration<\/b>\u00a0>\u00a0Change Root Password<\/b>\u00a0menu.
\n3. Enter the new password in\u00a0New root Password<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Confirm Password<\/b> fields (you may use the built-in password Generator option to create a strong password).
\n4. Once done, click the\u00a0Change Password<\/b>\u00a0button:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-01-27T210659.878-png-e1738008597277-800x361.avif\")
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