Username and pwd on fresh install at Godaddy VPS

Submitted by support0 on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 14:07

Installed on CentOS and all went well (Godaddy VPS), but the default login username and pwd for the OS does't work at https://ipaddress:10000 so how can I get in? Thank you!

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Submitted by andreychek on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 14:17

Howdy -- if you're able to login as root/password via SSH, that should also work to access Virtualmin.

Is that the issue you're having though -- you can login as root via SSH, but using the same root password, you can't login to Virtualmin?

Submitted by support0 on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 14:20

I cannot login as root, I have to login with my username, dallasray, and then do su - to get privs

But using dallasray and my password at the virtualmin login fails

Submitted by support0 on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 14:21

I do not have the root password I cannot get the root password

I can only do su - after ssh to the instance with my normal username/pwd "dallasray"

Submitted by support0 on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 14:22

Thanks you can close this ticket. I used

/usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root newPassword

and it worked!

Submitted by andreychek on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 14:25

Ah, it sounds like there isn't a user setup as a Master Admin on your server.

What you may want to do is to set a password for the root user. Alternatively, you could setup your user with sudo privileges, but setting a password for your root user is a simpler way of solving that.

To do that, once you log into your server over SSH, and you su to root, you can type this command:

passwd root

After doing that, you should then be able to access Virtualmin as your root user.