{"id":1026,"date":"2021-10-08T13:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/10\/08\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:10","slug":"5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hostinger-hpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Your FTP Password on Hostinger hPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Each website you <a href=\"\/support\/1583214-how-to-add-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">add to your hosting plan<\/a> will get an FTP account by default. To set up or change the FTP password for a website, go to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>&rarr; <b>Dashboard<\/b>, search for <b>FTP accounts<\/b> on the sidebar and click on it. Adjust the website selection from the list if needed to ensure you&rsquo;re updating the FTP password for the correct site. Then, click on <b>Change FTP password<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/downloads.intercomcdn.com\/i\/o\/e5dnas5h\/1252282290\/8624fb9c5758ecf1f1288bab3359\/change-ftp-password.png?expires=1731726000&amp;signature=95f47ad3a6855569c20993f44e007d23f18f8a23242de70a8501fe3983de4d6c&amp;req=dSIiFMt2n4NWWfMW3Hu4gSXVA6X%2BtknRIXFfTK6ti8W6dcCTJz25pYjcYv0s%0AfA%3D%3D%0A\" width=\"713\" alt=\"\"><\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">In the popup window, enter a new, strong password or use the option to generate one automatically:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/10\/93639e8c-f204-4f69-89c4-20a293729970.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Re-enter the password to confirm, then click <b>Change password<\/b> to apply it. Be sure to store your new password in a secure location, as it will not be visible on hPanel.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you change the FTP password of the account&rsquo;s main domain, it will update the SSH password to the same value. The main domain is the first domain you added to your hosting plan; it is also displayed on the Billing &rarr; Subscriptions page along with the name of your hosting plan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_a256475063\">How to change the password for additional FTP accounts<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you&rsquo;ve created an <a href=\"\/support\/1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-on-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">additional FTP account<\/a>, you can update its password on the same page. Scroll down, locate the specific FTP account, and click <b>Change password<\/b> next to it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/09\/2823bffb-a7d6-4b61-a66b-13fcb30fdc56.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Enter a new, strong password twice, then click <b>Change password<\/b> to complete the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing FTP\/SSH password via Hostinger\u2019s hPanel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-and-sftp"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5634574-como-cambiar-la-contrasena-ftp-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5634574-comment-changer-votre-mot-de-passe-ftp-sur-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5634574-cara-mengubah-password-ftp-di-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5634574-como-alterar-sua-senha-de-ftp-no-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5634574----ftp---\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}