openapi: 3.2.0 info: contact: email: cs@cpanel.net name: WebPros International, LLC url: https://cpanel.net/support/ description: UAPI accesses the cPanel interface's features. Use this API to access and modify cPanel account data and settings. license: name: cPanel License url: https://cpanel.net/legal-notices/ termsOfService: https://cpanel.net/legal-notices/ title: cPanel U Users API version: 11.137.9999.106 x-api-evangelist-provenance: 'Harvested verbatim from cPanel''s developer portal on 2026-09-05 via the MCP tool get-full-api-description at https://api.docs.cpanel.net/mcp. ONE mechanical change was made before storage: example values containing PEM private-key or certificate blocks, and AWS-access-key-shaped example strings, were replaced with REDACTED_* placeholders so the file can be stored in a public git repository without tripping secret scanning. No path, operation, parameter, schema or description was altered, added or removed.' servers: - description: A server running cPanel. url: https://{host}:{port}/execute variables: host: default: cpanel-server.tld description: The hostname of a server running cPanel. port: default: '2083' description: The cPanel port. security: - BasicAuth: [] tags: - description: The Users module for UAPI. name: Users paths: /Users/change_password: get: x-readonly: false x-rollback: none description: This function updates the cPanel account's password. operationId: Users-change_password parameters: - description: The new password. in: query name: newpass required: true schema: example: MyNewPassw0rd! format: password type: string - description: The current password. in: query name: oldpass required: true schema: example: ThisWasMyPassword! format: password type: string - description: "Whether to use Digest Authentication.\n* `1` - Use Digest Auth.\n* `0` - Do not use Digest Auth.\n\n**Note:**\n\n* Windows® Vista, Windows® 7, Windows® 8, and Windows® 10 require that you use Digest Authentication\n in order to access your Web Disk over a clear text, unencrypted connection." in: query name: enabledigest required: false schema: enum: - 0 - 1 example: 0 type: integer - description: 'Whether to update the cPanel account''s MySQL password. * `1` - Update MySQL password. * `0` - Do not update MySQL password.' in: query name: enablemysql required: false schema: default: 0 enum: - 0 - 1 example: 0 type: integer responses: '200': content: application/json: schema: properties: apiversion: description: The version of the API. example: 3 type: integer func: description: The name of the method called. example: change_password type: string module: description: The name of the module called. example: Users type: string result: properties: data: default: null type: - object - 'null' errors: description: List of errors if the API failed. example: null items: type: string type: - array - 'null' messages: description: List of messages generated by the API. example: null items: type: string type: - array - 'null' metadata: properties: {} status: description: '* `1` - Success * `0` - Failed: Check the errors field for more details.' enum: - 0 - 1 example: 1 type: integer warnings: description: List of warnings generated by the API. Warnings describe non-critical failures or other problematic conditions noted while running an API. example: null items: type: string type: - array - 'null' type: object description: HTTP Request was successful. summary: Update cPanel account password tags: - Users x-codeSamples: - label: CLI lang: Shell source: "uapi --output=jsonpretty \\\n --user=username \\\n Users \\\n change_password \\\n oldpass='MyPreviousPassword' \\\n newpass='MyUpdatedPassword'\n" - label: URL lang: HTTP source: https://hostname.example.com:2083/cpsess##########/execute/Users/change_password?oldpass=12346=newpass=ThisIs4It! - label: LiveAPI Perl lang: Perl source: "#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n# Instructions:\n#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n# is the theme assigned to cPanel account.\n# 1) cd /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/\n# 2) mkdir api_examples\n# 3) cd api_examples\n# 4) create a file Users_change_password.live.pl and put this code into that file.\n# 5) In your browser login to a cPanel account.\n# 6) Manually change the url from: .../frontend//\n# to .../frontend//api_examples/Users_change_password.live.pl\n#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nuse strict;\n\nuse Cpanel::LiveAPI ();\n\nmy $cpanel = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.\n\n# Print the header\nprint \"Content-type: text/plain\\r\\n\\r\\n\";\n\n# Call the API\nmy $response = $cpanel->uapi(\n q/Users/,\n q/change_password/,\n {\n 'oldpass' => 'PreviousPassword',\n 'newpass' => 'B3tt3rP4ssw0rd!',\n }\n);\n\n# Handle the response\nif ($response->{cpanelresult}{result}{status}) {\n my $data = $response->{cpanelresult}{result}{data};\n # Do something with the $data\n # So you can see the data shape we print it here.\n print to_json($data);\n}\nelse {\n # Report errors:\n print to_json($response->{cpanelresult}{result}{errors});\n}\n\n# Disconnect from cPanel - only do this once.\n$cpanel->end();\n\n#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n# Helper function to convert a perl object to html printable json\n#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nsub to_json {\n require JSON;\n my $str = JSON->new->pretty->encode($_[0]);\n return $str;\n}\n" - label: LiveAPI PHP lang: PHP source: " is the theme assigned to cPanel account.\n// 1) cd /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/\n// 2) mkdir api_examples\n// 3) cd api_examples\n// 4) create a file Users_change_password.live.php and put this code into that file.\n// 5) In your browser login to a cPanel account.\n// 6) Manually change the url from: .../frontend//\n// to .../frontend//api_examples/Users_change_password.live.php\n//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n// Instantiate the CPANEL object.\nrequire_once \"/usr/local/cpanel/php/cpanel.php\";\n\n// Print the header\nheader('Content-Type: text/plain');\n\n// Connect to cPanel - only do this once.\n$cpanel = new CPANEL();\n\n// Call the API\n$response = $cpanel->uapi(\n 'Users',\n 'change_password',\n array (\n 'oldpass' => 'PreviousPassword',\n 'newpass' => 'B3tt3rP4ssw0rd!',\n )\n);\n\n// Handle the response\nif ($response['cpanelresult']['result']['status']) {\n $data = $response['cpanelresult']['result']['data'];\n // Do something with the $data\n // So you can see the data shape we print it here.\n print to_json($data);\n}\nelse {\n // Report errors:\n print to_json($response['cpanelresult']['result']['errors']);\n}\n\n// Disconnect from cPanel - only do this once.\n$cpanel->end();\n\n//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n// Helper function to convert a PHP value to html printable json\n//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nfunction to_json($data) {\n return json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);\n}" x-cpanel-api-version: UAPI x-cpanel-available-version: 116 components: securitySchemes: BasicAuth: scheme: basic type: http externalDocs: url: https://cpanel.net/developers/ x-tagGroups: - 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