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Aspirant

Oct 23, 2018

Problem changing Admin password

Hi, Hav problem to change admin password. It worked earlyer but now I cant change it any more. And I can not add a new user. Any ideés? Kind regards, /Sören

ReadyNAS OS 6 on Legacy models

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Oct 24, 2018

You might need to do an OS reinstall. That will reset the admin password back to password. It will also reset the network configuration to the default settings, and turn off volume quota.

SorenB

Aspirant

Oct 24, 2018

Hi,

I get a nother tips. Log in with ssh on the unit and enter "passwd" and that worked. Now I have changed the password without doing a OS reinstall.

Regards

/Sören

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 24, 2018
SorenB wrote:

Log in with ssh on the unit and enter "passwd" and that worked. Now I have changed the password without doing a OS reinstall.

It doesn't generally work. I'm thinking that something you did resulted in changing the password to that value.
- SorenB
  Aspirant
  Oct 24, 2018
  Still I can't change password from the web interface. But now how I can change via ssh it's ok for me.
  
  Regards
  
  /Sören
  - mdgm
    Virtuoso
    Oct 25, 2018
    Your change may/may not survive a reboot. Things to check would be e.g. root volume usage, shadow file and the management service database.