Comments on: How to reset the administrator password in ISPConfig 3

By: Niko

Niko — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:01:14 +0000

Thank you, Jan, endeed, the apostrophes cannot be copied, one has to type it!

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:06:18 +0000

please be extremly careful about the apostrofe character. At best – retype it – do not copy/paste it otherwise you will be getting weird errors like the guys above….

By: Vahik Khoodians

Vahik Khoodians — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:11:01 +0000

Hi guys,
i am receiving same error with
UPDATE sys_user SET passwort = md5(‘admin’) WHERE username = ‘admin’;

but this one works for me
update sys_user set passwort = md5(‘admin’) WHERE username = ‘admin’;

Thanks for the tip.

By: Jean-Bruno

Jean-Bruno — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:35:39 +0000

MAny thanks for the tip

By: Till

Till — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:41:47 +0000

No, its really passwort with ‘t’ The field name is in German language (by the way, ist the only field name in german languge in ISPConfig) and in german its “passwort”. Just as a sidenote, password is a command in mysql syntax, so if you ever want to use password as field name in a mysql database, then you have to enclose it in backticks.

By: Nasro

Nasro — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:30:16 +0000

Hi all,

Paul, you are trying a bad synthax to change password !

The good synthax is :

UPDATE sys_user SET password = md5(‘admin’) WHERE username = ‘admin’;

password and NOT passwort.

By: Till

Till — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:22:09 +0000

Then your problem is not a wrong admin password, most likely ispconfig can not connect to its mysql database anymore. Please post in our forum to get support for ISPConfig:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/ on this issue.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:19:05 +0000

Hi, thanks 4 the fast reply

but it’s still not working to me,…

UPDATE `dbispconfig`.`sys_user` SET `passwort` = MD5( ‘admin’ ) WHERE `sys_user`.`userid` =1;

and after try to login it refresh the main login screen,… :S

logs only say:

[Thu Oct 27 14:29:25 2011] [error] [client n.n.n.n] PHP Notice: Undefined index: login in /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/lib/classes/plugin.inc.php on line 140, referer: https://n.n.n.n/index.php

cat /var/log/ispconfig/ispconfig.log <— it's empty,..ispconfig does not save logs,…
somewhere to enable it?

it's a fresh installation with 3 sites created nothing special,…..
any idea?

Paul

By: Till

Till — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:26:16 +0000

Resetting the password as described above works fine as ispconfig has a md5 fallback mode. But you can not crack the password like you tried it as the passwords saved by ispconfig are encrypted with crypt-md5 plus salt, which is the standard of most Linux distributions.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:59:52 +0000

this is not working for me , I’ve tried to reset db passd from passwort field on sys_users table but passwds are not an MD5!!

$1$………….. -> no MD5…

I’ve tried t crack it with john,..& no success…( curiously John detects it as a MD5 Hassh FreeBSD ,.. )

I’ve trtied tu update panel admin passwd copying & pasting a known passwd in another ispconfig panel and it’s not working sombody can help me plz?

txz in advance.

Paul