{"id":540,"date":"2024-02-13T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2024\/02\/13\/8942826-how-to-change-your-vps-ssh-password-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:46:40","slug":"8942826-how-to-change-your-vps-ssh-password-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8942826-how-to-change-your-vps-ssh-password-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Your VPS SSH Password at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can easily change your server’s SSH password from hPanel:<\/p>

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  1. \n

    Navigate to the VPS<\/a><\/b> section of hPanel and click on Manage<\/b> next to your server<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    Go to the settings page from the sidebar
    ​<\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    ​<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    On the main settings, locate the Root password<\/b> option, enter a new strong password,<\/b> and click on Update<\/b>:
    ​<\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    \n<\/p><\/li>\n

  4. \n

    The password change can take a few moments to be applied. To verify when it’s completed, select Backup & Monitoring<\/b> → Latest Actions <\/b>page on the sidebar, and you’ll find it as ct_set_rootpasswd<\/b>:
    ​<\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    \n<\/p><\/li>\n

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    Once the status shown is Success<\/b>, you can log in to your VPS using the new password<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>

    That’s it! Now you know how to change the password to access your VPS via SSH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Changing your password to connect to your VPS via SSH<\/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":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8942826-how-to-change-your-vps-ssh-password-at-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}