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Disable cphulkd in cpanel server

By PrasadNaik

April 11, 2014

Sometime you may face issue while logging to WHM where password does not work but via SSH password work  The issue in cpanel server is due to cphulkd which is one of the security feature.

to get it password working you need to ssh and disabled cphulkd using below commands
root@server [~]# /usr/local/cpanel/etc/init/stopcphulkd
Waiting for cphulkd.pl,cPhulkd,cphulkd to shutdown ….. terminated.

root@server [~]# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cphulk_pam_ctl –disable

Now you can login to server via WHM