You may need to change the password of all your cPanel accounts in case of a potential security threat. But doing it manually will take a lot of time, especially if you have hundreds of cPanel accounts.
You can automate this process with simple shell scripts.
Step 1: SSH to your VPS with the root user.
Step 2: Create a new file using your favorite editor. In our case, we have created a file change-cpanel-pass.sh. and add the below script to it.
#! /bin/bash ls -1 /var/cpanel/users | while read user; do pass=`</dev/urandom tr -dc “A-Za-z0-9*-/+.*=_\|\\#” | head -c16 echo “$user $pass” >> new-passwords.txt /scripts/realchpass $user $pass /scripts/ftpupdate done
Step 3: Save the file and give it executable permission to the script.
# chmod +x changecpanelpass.sh
Step 4: Execute the script using the command sh changecpanelpass.sh
This script will change the passwords of all the cPanel accounts and create a file named new-passwords.txt, which contains all the passwords.
