Reset Password for Webmin
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips
This happens to everyone at one time or another. You go on vacation and when you come back, you forget all of the passwords on your computer. Well, I only forgot one password: the login for Webmin.
I failed logging in several times and then Webmin blocked my IP. Getting localhost blocked isn’t a good thing to see. So I searched the Internet for a way to reset the password and I found this procedure:
- Login to your computer as root.
- If you are running a RedHat distribution (i.e. Fedora, CentOS, Gentoo), enter the following command:/usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin username password
If you are running a Debian distribution, enter the following command:
/usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin username password
- Login to Webmin with your reset password.
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on 12 Feb 2007 at 12:38 pm 1.Planeta CentOS » Reset Password for Webmin said …
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on 12 Feb 2007 at 2:28 pm 2.marlisa said …
Change your ip address with proxys. Than check it with this ip locator: http://www.ip-adress.com
If the ip is another and ip-adress.com doesnt show your house from the sky you did it
on 12 Feb 2007 at 8:02 pm 3.Johan Cyprich said …
Its amazing how many smart people there are in the world.
I’ll have to try that solution.
on 22 Jul 2008 at 4:57 pm 4.Leovenous said …
In my Ubuntu LTS (Debian based) the path is /usr/local/webmin/changepass.pl.