Reset default admin password

alphonso

My moodlebox was working just fine until I decided to change default admin password to "Moodlebox5%"
Now it wont allow me to log on as admin. And I'm pretty sure "Moodlebox5%" is the new password I typed - even had the eye icon on to see it, while typing.

Moodlebox 2.5.1

Any advice would be appreciated.

Nicolas

alphonso Anyway, if you changed the main password using the MoodleBox user interface (inside Moodle), you could change it again by logging into Moodle using the default credentials (if you didn't change it), then access to the MoodleBox GUI and change it again.

This will work since the Moodle admin password is not changed when you update the main password of the MoodleBox.

Nicolas

alphonso I just added a documentation page about this. Hopefully this can help you.

Nicolas

How did you change the default password? Did you really type the 'b' of Box lowercase?

Tuga_Dev

Nicolas

Hi. I changed the moodblebox and Moodlebox4$ user password inside moodle I went User > User search and edited the Username and Password and pressed save changes. Then spent the whole day editing the site. Now I can't log in to Moodle.

Anyway I can fix this?

Ratna

I didn't notice that. If one has the password of the 'admin' user of Moodle, he can reset the password of the shell account 'moodlebox'? That is neat!

Ratna

Tuga_Dev

You changed the password of the Moodle user 'moodlebox' from Moodlebox4$ to something else and now can't remember that password?

Can you connect to the Moodle in the MoodleBox? I mean, when you say, you can't log in to Moodle, you see the MoodleBox home page in your browser? If so, then you have a network connection to MoodleBox. I haven't tested this but Moodle has a PHP script to change the password of any user. You have to open a shell if your laptop runs a Unix, or install and run PuTTY if Windows, and try to SSH to moodlebox.home or 10.0.0.1 as user moodlebox, hopefully that password is still Moodlebox4$. then change to the Moodle code directory, probably /var/www/html/moodle and execute 'php admin/cli/reset_password.php'. Good luck!