UAPI Functions - WebDisk::set_password

Description

This function changes the Web Disk account's password.

Examples


 cPanel or Webmail Session URL

https://hostname.example.com:2083/cpsess##########/execute/WebDisk/set_password?user=example1%40example.com&password=12345luggage&enabledigest=0

 LiveAPI PHP Class

$cpanel new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
// Set the password for the example1 Web Disk user.
$new_password $cpanel->uapi(
    'WebDisk''set_password',
    array(
        'user'          => 'example1@example.com',
        'password'      => '12345luggage",
        'enabledigest   => '0',
         )
);

 LiveAPI Perl Module

my $cpliveapi = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
# Set the password for the example1 Web Disk user.
my $set_password $cpliveapi->uapi(
    'WebDisk''set_password',
    {
        'user'          =>   'example1@example.com',
        'password'      =>   '12345luggage',
        'enabledigest'  => '0'
    }
);

 cPanel Template Toolkit

<!-- Set the password for the example1 Web Disk user. -->
[% execute( 'WebDisk', 'set_password', { user => 'example1@example.com', password => '12345luggage', enabledigest => '0' } ); %]

 Command Line

uapi --user=username WebDisk set_password user=example1%40example.com password=12345luggage enabledigest=0

 

Notes:

  • You must URI-encode values.
  • username represents your account-level username.

 Output (JSON)

   "messages":null,
   "errors":null,
   "status":1,
   "metadata":{ 
 
   },
   "data":null
}

 

Note:

Use cPanel's API Shell interface (Home >> Advanced >> API Shell) to directly test cPanel API calls.

 

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

Possible values

Example

user

string

Required

The Web Disk account username.

 The username of a Web Disk account on the cPanel account. 

 example1@example.com 

password

string

Required

The Web Disk account's password.

A secure password.

12345luggage

 enabledigest 

 Boolean 

 Whether to enable Digest Authentication. 

  • 1 — Enable Digest Authentication.
  • 0 — Disable Digest Authentication.

0

 

Returns

This function only returns metadata.

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