# Securing Your Account

## Password and login

You can change your login details, including password and email from your 2Checkout Merchant Control Panel. 

2Checkout assigns your email address to a single account. To use the same email address for multiple accounts, contact 2Checkout. 

### Login settings <a href="#login-settings" id="login-settings"></a>

To set or edit your login details, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your [Merchant Control Panel](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel).
2. Navigate to the **Settings** cogwheel in the top right corner.
3. Click on **My details**.<br>

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4. On the [login information](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/login_information.php) page, you can edit your login details:&#x20;
   * First name&#x20;
   * Last name&#x20;
   * Username
   * Email.
5. After editing your login details, click on the **Update** button to save them.<br>

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### Password Settings <a href="#password-settings" id="password-settings"></a>

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#### Password requirements

2Checkout requires you to set a strong password:

* Must have at least 8 characters.
* Must have at least 3 out of the following 4 sets of characters: small letters, capital letters, numbers, and special characters.
* Must be different from the last 4 passwords.
* The password will never expire.
  {% endhint %}

#### Set up your password <a href="#set-up-your-password" id="set-up-your-password"></a>

To set a password for your 2Checkout account, follow the steps below.

1. Log in to your [Merchant Control Panel](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel).
2. Navigate to the **Settings** cogwheel in the top right corner and click on **My details**.
3. On the [login information](https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/login_information.php) page, you can set up the password for your account.
4. Input your old password, the input the new password. You can click on the **Generate** button to make sure you use a strong password.
5. Confirm the new password.
6. Select the password lifetime. For security reasons, we recommend setting up a password expiration date. Master account users can set passwords to **never expire**. Contact the master user of your account to perform this change on your user account.
7. Click on the **Save** button to update the password.<br>

   <div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="hint" data-style="info" class="hint hint-info"><p>In case you forgot your account password, use the password recovery functionality and a link for generating a new password will be sent to the e-mail address you use to log in to the Merchant Control Panel.</p></div>

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