Lost admin password

yodanski · Post by **yodanski** » 27 Apr 2007, 11:11

Hi all,

I don't know how I did it, but I can't login to the admin account.
I just opened the box containing Bubba just over an hour ago.

Changing the admin password was the first thing I did. I'm not going to type the password here, but there was a $ in it. Could that be the problem?

I did create another account which works fine. But I need the admin
privileges of course. I could be some kid trying to ssh into another person's Bubba (who did not change the admin pwd), so if you're a moderator and need more info to prove who I am, just let me know. I already sent an email to Excito on this.

Please help!

yodanski · Post by **yodanski** » 27 Apr 2007, 14:55

Never mind people. Logged in with the other account, su-ed in and changed password for admin with passwd.

I'm quite the newbie on UNIX systems, but this worked.

yodanski · Post by **yodanski** » 28 Apr 2007, 17:33

I received an email from support today.

Seems that it is a bug. It is possible to include
other characters than A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and _ when changing
the admin password, but I recommend that you don't
( as is adviced when you add another user).
Chances are you can't login.

So...Always add a user ! You can always do a su and change
the admin password later.

Cheers.

Post by **johannes** » 29 Apr 2007, 05:14

Exactly, yodanski found a bug for us, the change password function accepts the '$' sign, but won't let you log on with it. We'll solve it asap, but until then, don't try to add '$' to your user names or passwords. Also as yodanski says, it's always good to have a user with shell access available. If nothing else, in case you forget your admin password.

ceb · Post by **ceb** » 01 Nov 2007, 21:41

I just thought I'd point out that, when SSHing to the bubba server, and coming in via the self-generated DNS name bubba registers with my local DNS server, I have at times found myself not able to log in.

When I SSH using the IP address specifically, then I am able to log in just fine.

Scary that.

Ubi · Post by **Ubi** » 03 Nov 2007, 18:57

Whats scary is that your local DNS server just lets random machine register themselves (which I do not think bubba does). My gues is that you're confusing DNS with microsofts horrible NMB-master-naming thing (i forgot the name). Either register Bubba properly in your dns server or just login to the IP adres.

This, btw, has absolutely *nothing* to do with the SSH protocol

Ubi