{"id":276,"date":"2025-04-15T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:03:34","slug":"%f0%9f%94%90-how-to-reset-ssh-configuration-from-whm-if-youre-locked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/cpanel\/%f0%9f%94%90-how-to-reset-ssh-configuration-from-whm-if-youre-locked-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd10 How to Reset SSH Configuration from WHM If You&#8217;re Locked Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you misconfigure your <strong>SSH settings<\/strong> and lock yourself out of your server, you can reset them from <strong>WHM<\/strong> using the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Step 1: Access WHM via Non-Secure Port<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open your browser and go to WHM using <strong>port 2086<\/strong> (non-SSL access):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">http:\/\/serverip:2086<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">http:\/\/192.168.10.11:2086<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd04 Step 2: Run the AutoFix Script for SSH<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once logged into WHM, navigate to this URL to trigger the SSH reset:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">http:\/\/:2086\/scripts2\/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">http:\/\/192.168.10.11:2086\/scripts2\/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will attempt to <strong>safely restart SSH<\/strong> with default working settings, allowing you to regain SSH access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 Done!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You should now be able to connect via SSH again with default settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you misconfigure your SSH settings and lock yourself out of your server, you can reset them from WHM using the following steps: \ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Step 1: Access WHM via Non-Secure Port Open your browser and go to WHM using port 2086 (non-SSL access): http:\/\/serverip:2086 Example: http:\/\/192.168.10.11:2086 \ud83d\udd04 Step 2: Run the AutoFix Script for SSH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[262,263,260,261],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel","tag-262","tag-autofix-script-for-ssh","tag-non-secure-port","tag-whm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.24x7serverguard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}