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Loco1
Aspirant
May 13, 2013

reset admin password via ssh

Hi guys
I have foolishly forgotten my admin password.
I never really need to logging to the admin section as i mostly mount an nfs share and deal with it remotely with ssh.
I was wondring if there was a way of reseting the frontview admin password through the CLI?
I have ssh access with my account and i su to root.

I have tried the password recovery but the password will not send out and i cannot seem to find out why.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

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  • :nashammer:
    I should have known that.
    i didnt see the admin user in the /etc/passwd file.

    Guess i am having a blond moment

    Cheers dude.

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