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How to change DirectAdmin’s admin password from SSH
If you have the SSH access to your server, you can change the DirectAdmin’s admin password from the backend.
Step 1: SSH into the server
1. You can check the login details when DirectAdmin was first installed by using the command below:
cat /var/log/directadmin/install.log
or
cat /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt
2. In order to reset the ‘admin’ password, you can use the command “passwd admin” as below and key in the password twice then you will get a successful notification.
passwd admin
Changing password for user admin.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.