How to generate new secure MySQL password on cPanel server & change .php file (cPanel)

Hello,

MySQL removed support for 4.1 style passwords from 5.6 and so caused alot of trouble when migrating old mysql accounts to new mysql.

I am wondering how to bulk update mysql passwords and also .php files which contain old passwords to reflect the change.

My ideas on the process are these:
1. can i discover some mysql user plain text password as a server root? If not, then discover list of users and for each user find their .php files that contains both "username_" and "localhost" -...

How to generate new secure MySQL password on cPanel server & change .php file (cPanel)

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