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Bjarne - Mon, 2016/09/26 - 13:23
This is embarrasing.
Configured a turnkey wordpress installation, and while focusing on content, completely forgot passwords to webmin, ftp and so on.
Is there any way to recover that?
Best regards
Bjarne
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Perhaps...
If you don't have keys, then it will depend on where you have the server running. If you are running this locally (either bare metal or VM) then you have a range of options to reset the root user account password. The 2 that spring to mind are using a Linux "Live CD/USB" to boot the machine and chroot into your OS. THe other is to boot into single user mode on boot.
Sorry I haven't given full details or step-by-step for those possibilities. I don't actually recall the steps OTTOMH but you should be able to find plenty of info via google. Note that under the hood TurnKey is Debian (v14.x = Debian Jessie). Ubuntu is also derived from Debian so most info relevant to Ubuntu servers should also apply.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the support!
A collague of me had the root password noted. We're back in :) Running a WordPress intranet site in a HyperV virtual machine for some months now, some thousands hits every day. Works just fine :)
Thanks :)
Using Turnkey WordPress and I LIKE it :)
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