Changing admin password: how?

Virtualmin
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On a Virtual Server, how can a customer change the admin password for their account? I don’t see a way to do this unless if they send me a support ticket and I do it through shell

Thanks,
G

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Well, I don’t recommend changing it via the shell… that’d get the actual password out of sync with what Virtualmin thinks it is.

As an admin, you can change it from inside the Edit Virtual Server screen.

As a user, there should be a menu option when they log in named “Webmin Modules” – one of which contains an option to change their password.

-Eric

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Thanks for your reply Eric,

When I login as the user, I do see the “Webmin Modules” option and then the “Change Passwords” option. The problem is that the admin user for that virtual server is not one of the users you can select to change passwords. Looks like it only allows you to change the passwords for other users that the admin has created but not his/her own.

Any other places I can look?

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Thanks for your reply Eric,

When I login as the user, I do see the “Webmin Modules” option and then the “Change Passwords” option. The problem is that the admin user for that virtual server is not one of the users you can select to change passwords. Looks like it only allows you to change the passwords for other users that the admin has created but not his/her own.

Any other places I can look?

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Mmm, looks like the admin user for a Virtual Server can change the admin password the same way the Master Administrator can – by going into Edit Virtual Server, and choosing Configurable settings -> Administration password.

-Eric

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Eric,

That worked…thanks for that find :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the solution.

Ed