[Solved] Unable to reset Hestia admin password via SSH

[puspus]

Why suddenly I am unable to login to Hestia?

I tried using this command through SSH: v-change-user-password admin [new_password]

and it says permission denied. Error: user admin doesn't exist

Sudo won't work either (command not found).

What should I do?

Thank you.

[wolstech]

Krydos can assist with this.

[Ookma-Kyi]

4 hours ago, puspus said:

Why suddenly I am unable to login to Hestia?

I tried using this command through SSH: v-change-user-password admin [new_password]

and it says permission denied. Error: user admin doesn't exist

Sudo won't work either (command not found).

What should I do?

Thank you.

Can you please try:

which sudo

and let me know the results?

Edited February 14 by Ookma-Kyi

[Krydos]

I tested your SSH account and it works fine for me

puspusssh@vps118:~$ which sudo
/usr/bin/sudo
puspusssh@vps118:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for puspusssh:
root@vps118:/home/puspusssh# exit
puspusssh@vps118:~$ sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin newpassword
puspusssh@vps118:~$

I didn't leave the password as "newpassword" though because it is very insecure. Which SSH account are you logging in to? I see you have an FTP account too. If you login to that account via SSH it might not have sudo privileges.

[puspus]

@Ookma-Kyi Result: /usr/bin/sudo

@Krydos Thank you! I did not not use the complete path for the command. My bad. Now I can login. But I still wonder why admin login suddenly failed.