The walletpassphrasechange RPC changes the wallet passphrase from 'old passphrase' to 'new passphrase'.
walletpassphrasechange "oldpassphrase" "newpassphrase"
*bitcoin-cli help walletpassphrasechange
walletpassphrasechange "oldpassphrase" "newpassphrase" Changes the wallet passphrase from 'oldpassphrase' to 'newpassphrase'. Arguments: 1. oldpassphrase (string, required) The current passphrase 2. newpassphrase (string, required) The new passphrase Result: null (json null) Examples: > bitcoin-cli walletpassphrasechange "old one" "new one" > curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "walletpassphrasechange", "params": ["old one", "new one"]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/