Reset admin password in OpenMediaVault
If you had forgotten the OpenMediaVault Default Login defaults, this post should help you reset it.
I am putting some finishing touches to my OpenMeviaVault based setup of Helios 4 NAS system. I forgot that I got the default password changed in OMV, so it seems I locked myself out using default password. This meant I had to reset the web admin password. I still had my SSH access, so this post shows steps of completing the recovery.
Run the omv-firstaid command as root
For both steps of this procedure, the easiest is to run omv-firstaid command as root. It’s pretty cool that someone on the OpenMediaVault thought of the typical issues one might run into and prepared a tool like this.
You SSH as the default user (the one you created upon first boot after Armbian install on Helios 4), become root and run omv-firstaid (no command-line options):
Reset Failed Login Counters in OpenMediaVault
The OMV setup keeps track of failed logins and you can see it by using the omv-firstaid command.
Select the Reset failed login attempt counter menu item:
And you should see the list of accounts with failed login attempts:
After we select a user (I chose admin in my case) there will be a confirmation shown:
Change the OpenMediaVault password
Now we start the omv-firstaid command again and select the following option:
That’s pretty much it! Hope it helps if you ever have the same issue.
See Also
If you had forgotten the OpenMediaVault Default Login defaults, this post should help you reset it.
I am putting some finishing touches to my OpenMeviaVault based setup of Helios 4 NAS system. I forgot that I got the default password changed in OMV, so it seems I locked myself out using default password. This meant I had to reset the web admin password. I still had my SSH access, so this post shows steps of completing the recovery.
Run the omv-firstaid command as root
For both steps of this procedure, the easiest is to run omv-firstaid command as root. It’s pretty cool that someone on the OpenMediaVault thought of the typical issues one might run into and prepared a tool like this.
You SSH as the default user (the one you created upon first boot after Armbian install on Helios 4), become root and run omv-firstaid (no command-line options):
Reset Failed Login Counters in OpenMediaVault
The OMV setup keeps track of failed logins and you can see it by using the omv-firstaid command.
Select the Reset failed login attempt counter menu item:
And you should see the list of accounts with failed login attempts:
After we select a user (I chose admin in my case) there will be a confirmation shown:
Change the OpenMediaVault password
Now we start the omv-firstaid command again and select the following option:
That’s pretty much it! Hope it helps if you ever have the same issue.
