How to change a cPanel email account password via the command-line

This knowledgebase provides you with the cPanel command you can use to reset or change a cPanel email account password via SSH or terminal.  Using the command-line can oftentimes be a more efficient way of changing passwords. Especially if you intend on changing many of them.

We will use the cPanel UAPI passwd_pop call to change the password.

Steps

1.  To begin, connect to your server via SSH or Terminal. Ensure you are logged in as root.
2. Run the following command:

uapi --user=YourcPanelUsername Email passwd_pop email='youremail@example.com' password='NewPasswordHere'

In order to perform the above command, please change all italicized words and ensure you are logged in as the root user via the command-line.

That’s all there is to it.

If you are a customer and still have questions about resetting your email account password, please login and open a support ticket in our client portal. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have.