command line password recovery

[kusznir]

Hello all:
Somehow I managed to forget the password of my UNMS instance. And the web gui-based password recovery e-mail doesn't work (no e-mail ever arrives, but that's been my experience with the UBNT-released version too).

I found this URL for command line recovery instructions:
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015690087-UISP-Command-Line-Interface-CLI

but none of that works (which I'm not surprised because its repackaged). However, after extensive looking, I still was not able to fund the unms-cli command. I assumed it would be in there, just at a different path, but I think I've been pretty through, and even tried using the find command, and I am not finding the unms-cli command anywhere.

I looked for other methods as well. I think I came close with:
/home/app/unms/cli/user.js

It will list the users in the system, and from viewing the code through "more", it appears to have code to change the password of a user, but I'm not able to decipher how to do so. I tried all the options used in various forms from the UBNT help page, and got nowhere. I tried --help, and got the same output if I didn't put any options. It appears if I supply two options, then the first is processed as a command, but everything I've tried comes back with "unknown command <whatever option 1 was>"

So, does anyone have any info/advice on how to proceed?
Thanks!
BTW: I really love this docker image! I'm running it under portainer, and so far it has worked great!

[Nico640]

Hi,

You came very close ;) this image does not have an unms-cli command, because it's actually only a bash script that executes a command in the appropriate container via docker compose. But because everything is contained in a single container here, the unms-cli script wouldn't work.
However, you can actually look inside the unms-cli script and check what it's actually doing when resetting the password (not exactly straightforward though because you need to get unms-cli from somewhere).

The command you're looking for is: node cli/user.js password USERNAME. Replace USERNAME with the username of your UISP user and execute it inside the container, it should prompt for a new password and change it.

btw, the web gui password recovery only works if you configured an e-mail server in UISP.

[karnophage]

Thank you!

[kusznir]

Great, thanks! --Jim

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On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 2:19 PM Nico640 ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, You came very close ;) this image does not have an unms-cli command, because it's actually only a bash script that executes a command in the appropriate container via docker compose. But because everything is contained in a single container here, the unms-cli script wouldn't work. However, you can actually look inside the unms-cli script and check what it's actually doing when resetting the password (not exactly straightforward though because you need to get unms-cli from somewhere). The command you're looking for is: node cli/user.js password USERNAME. Replace USERNAME with the username of your UISP user and execute it inside the container, it should prompt for a new password and change it. btw, the web gui password recovery only works if you configured an e-mail server in UISP. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#105 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGMKYV2RFDYREUU3F6NG7JLZBFAMXAVCNFSM6AAAAABHJKOB7SVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4TGNBXGE3TA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>