Just installed cpanel yesterday. Now getting invalid login.

depaq

• December 14, 2014 17:33

Hello, Yesterday I bought a VPS + cPanel from my host and got it installed, setup, and working. I have a few websites currently running off it. Today, however, I try to log into the WHM control panel to find out that I cannot log in. I've done some research already, and it seems cphulk has been blocking a LOT of brute force attempts (Already!?) from China. It seems I've been locked out completely. The logs say my IP is now a brute force attacker. My error: The login is invalid. I'm trying to log in as the root admin. All of this below is from doesn't work. I've also truncated the brutes and login tables in mysql. What else can I do? This is madness. :confused:

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  depaq

  • December 15, 2014 06:48

  Ok, so I'm still hacking away at this. I've found that the root account cannot be logged into at all using cPanel right now. I was, however, able to log in as the normal user accounts that I created last night. Is there any way I can reset the status of root account? It's probably just locked out..

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 15, 2014 14:43

  ] I've found that the root account cannot be logged into at all using cPanel right now. I was, however, able to log in as the normal user accounts that I created last night. Is there any way I can reset the status of root account? It's probably just locked out..

  
  Hello :) The issue here is that you are attempting to access cPanel as "root". You must use Web Host Manager instead: Thank you.

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  depaq

  • December 15, 2014 19:37

  Well that is embarrassing. Thanks.

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