lost passwords

[moneyluv]

Help!!!, we had some people work on our box to creates ome services and they b0rked our PHP/Apache and broke our Cacti install, after a month now we have finally got it working and we can log in as guest but we need the admin account back - please help me figure out how to retrieve it.

We also are trying to figure out how to get statistics for Eth0 like MRTG, any assistence in getting this setup would be fantastic. Right now we see graphs for Apache, MySQL, CPU, users etc, but we desperatly need to know the bandwidth on Eth0.

David

[ablyler]

The following sql code will set the admin password to blank. (CHANGE THE PASSWORD VIA THE CONSOLE AFTER YOU DO THIS!)

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UPDATE cacti.auth_users set password = '' WHERE username = 'admin';

Also use the SNMP Interfaces screen to create interface graphs.

[Guest]

Sorry to be a pain but do I run this command from?

[TheWitness]

If unix, then alter as applicable:

mysql --user=root --password cacti
> UPDATE cacti.auth_users set password = '' WHERE username = 'admin';
> quit

Then you should be able to logon to Cacti without a password (I hope). Otherwise, what you need to do is install a fresh version of Cacti in another location and edit your system using MySQL Administrator or MySQL Control Center and copy and past the ID and password from the default system into the existing system. At that point, the passwords will match. The default password on a new system is "admin", "admin".

TheWitness