+1 to what Darrick suggested.
For completeness, an alternate method is to use the "htpasswd" command from the
CLI.
To change the web interface 'admin' password, you will be prompted for the new
password...
--
# htpasswd /var/www/admin/.htpasswd admin
Changing password for user admin
New password:
Re-type new password:
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Lonnie
On Dec 20, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote:
> David,
>
> You can simply delete the .htpasswd file located in
> /oldroot/mnt/asturw/stat/var/www/admin
>
> That will revert it back to the stock one found in /stat/var/www/admin (which
> is astlinux). Note that if you have other user passwords, you may want to
> save a backup of that file and copy the lines after the “admin” user back
> into the .htpasswd file in /oldroot/mnt/asturw/stat/var/www/admin after it
> gets re-created (which will happen after you re-set the admin password to
> something other than astlinux.
>
> You may need to re-start lighttpd, but I don’t believe that’s the case.
>
> Darrick
>
> From: David McQuie [mailto:da...@mcquie.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 10:41 PM
> To: astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Astlinux-users] Forgotten WEB access password
>
>
> I have forgotten the web admin password used to access the web interface for
> the machine that I maintain where I work.
>
> I can get in on the CLI using ssh however I mostly prefer the web gui.
>
> Is there a way to erase the web interface admin password so that I can get in
> ans use the web gui again.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
>
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