{"id":919,"date":"2022-08-03T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T07:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/08\/03\/6440760-how-to-change-an-ssh-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:03:06","slug":"6440760-how-to-change-an-ssh-password-on-hostinger-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6440760-how-to-change-an-ssh-password-on-hostinger-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change an SSH password on Hostinger dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change the SSH password on Hostinger dashboard to set a separate password from your FTP login.<\/p><h3>Before you start<\/h3><ul>\n<li>SSH access must be enabled first. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583645-how-to-enable-ssh-access-in-hostinger\/\">how to enable SSH access in Hostinger<\/a> if you haven&rsquo;t done so yet.<\/li>\n<li>SSH access is available on Premium Web hosting plans and above.<\/li>\n<li>By default, the FTP password you created when setting up your hosting plan is also your SSH password &mdash; if you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/\">change your FTP password<\/a>, it&rsquo;s automatically applied to SSH as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-set-a-separate-ssh-password\">Set a separate SSH password<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you wish to have different SSH and FTP passwords, you may change <b>only the SSH<\/b> <b>password<\/b> on Hostinger dashboard by following these steps:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">In the <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> <\/b>section, click on <b>Dashboard <\/b>next to the site in question. Search for <b>SSH Access<\/b> on the sidebar and click on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/dfa5f498-f8af-463b-a7b7-fa1892c1f722.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger hPanel Advanced menu with SSH Access highlighted\" width=\"250\" data-media-id=\"3746\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Click on <b>Change<\/b> next to <b>Password<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_13-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1205\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_13-26.png 1205w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_13-26-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_13-26-1024x340.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_13-26-768x255.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1205px) 100vw, 1205px\" \/><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You will be prompted to generate a new password containing numbers, symbols, uppercase, and lowercase letters. Once done, click <b>Change<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/924a5189-5ef7-450c-9b43-82ea2989ddea.jpg\" alt=\"SSH password change dialog with the Change button highlighted\" width=\"450\" data-media-id=\"3749\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Now, you have a new password to access all of your account&rsquo;s files via SSH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the SSH password via Hostinger dashboard<\/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":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssh-connection-and-ssh-keys"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6440760-how-to-change-an-ssh-password-on-hostinger-hpanel\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6440760-como-cambiar-la-contrasena-ssh-en-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6440760-comment-changer-le-mot-de-passe-du-certificat-ssh-sur-hpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/6440760-cara-mengubah-password-ssh-di-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6440760-como-alterar-a-senha-ssh-no-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/6440760----ssh--hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18223,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/18223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}