Reset Admin Password

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I forgot the admin password, How to reset it, Please help.

Detail:
I installed mailinabox few weeks ago and it did not worked for me.
Now I explored documentation and executed command sudo mailinabox and it worked.
Finally I can see login screen now. But Now I forgot the admin password. Please tell me how to reset it.
What is the path of password file?
I have root access to server.

Thanks in Advance

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Log into the box using SSH (same as when you set up the box). Then run:

sudo /root/mailinabox/tools/mail.py user password your@address.com

Replacing your@address.com with the email address that you created when you created the box (or whatever your admin account email address is).

Run

sudo /root/mailinabox/tools/mail.py

for a full list of commands.

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That solved my issue.

Thank you a lot for quick support. Mail-in-a-box is very usefull package and This forum gives best support
Thanks again

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Hello, I am having the same issue … I have forgotten the admin password.

When following the instructions in this post I get the following:

password:
(again):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./mailinabox/tools/mail.py”, line 99, in
print(mgmt("/mail/users/password", { “email”: email, “password”: pw }))
File “./mailinabox/tools/mail.py”, line 9, in mgmt
setup_key_auth(mgmt_uri)
File “./mailinabox/tools/mail.py”, line 47, in setup_key_auth
key = open(’/var/lib/mailinabox/api.key’).read().strip()
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/var/lib/mailinabox/api.key’

Can anyone offer some help? Thanks in advance!

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Run with sudo! the last line tells you the problem “PermissionError” means you ran the command as normal user. Run with Root.

sudo ./home/username/mailinabox/tools/mail.py user password user@domain.com

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I think @murgero is correct that this is a permissions issue, but the path in the command s/he gave is incorrect. See @JoshData’s earlier post for the correct command, and ensure you include sudo at the start.

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@sdlg My command is correct for my system. “username” is replaced with the users login name, Since I do not use root to login, when I install MIAB it’s tools and scripts are put in /home/username/mailinabox" but if doing it directly from the root account it will be in /root/mailinabox.

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Great. For everyone who isn’t logged into your Box, though, @JoshData’s answer is correct.

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I am not denying @JoshData’s answer, I just followed the install instructions and that is how it was installed for me. For most people, I would assume the same unless using a VPS with only root access. :slight_smile: Cheers!

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Logged in a standard user with sudo privilege and in my /home folder I had to run

sudo mailinabox/tools/mail.py user password your@address.com

I was receiving the following

sudo: /root/mailinabox/tools/mail.py: command not found

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Then …

sudo /home/username/mailinabox/tools/mail.py user password

substitute username with the system user account that you used when installing MiaB.

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I am also trying to rest my mail in box admin password using the steps above (sudo mailinabox/tools/mail.py user password your@address.com) but i am getting the following error - /root/mailinabox/tools/mail.py: line 3: management/cli.py: No such file or directory

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I think this script might have moved to:

mailinabox/management/cli.py

Looking at comment in the new script on GitHub

# This is a command-line script for calling management APIs
# on the Mail-in-a-Box control panel backend. The script
# reads /var/lib/mailinabox/api.key for the backend's
# root API key. This file is readable only by root, so this
# tool can only be used as root.
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The key question is if you installed MiaB using root or using a sudo user?

You have to adjust your path relative to the user which was used to install MiaB initially.

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My comment might be a red herring then?