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All right, try this: There is a script in the /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts directory that you can use to reset the password. Login to a shell as root and run the following command (replacing <newpassword> with the password of your choice): php /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/reset_nagiosadmin_password.p...

p13589 wrote:

tonyyarusso wrote:Wait, what? What does this mean then?

I did look in /var/mail/root, It does carry the password.

It is not in /var/mail/root. It gives an error on root@locahost that it is not a valid user.

It was a mistake. It does not carry password.

tonyyarusso wrote:Wait, what? What does this mean then?

I did look in /var/mail/root, It does carry the password.

It is not in /var/mail/root. It gives an error on root@locahost that it is not a valid user.

tonyyarusso wrote:You do know the password, because you just found it in the mail file, according to what you said.

That is what I am telling you gaing that there is no password in the mail. If I knew the password I was not going to create this problem. I do not know the password .........

The htpasswd file is a different authentication than what you need for the XI web interface. Use the password for the nagiosadmin user to log into the web interface, and then you can reset your password from the Admin menu. Nagios XI stores it's user information in a database. The htpasswd.users fi...

tonyyarusso wrote:Try looking in /var/mail/root for the password that was mailed.

I did look in /var/mail/root, It does carry the password. I change the password for nagiosadmin by using htpasswd command so that I will nknow the passsword. But it still will not allow me to login by using the new password.

I have installed Demo Nagiosxi on Redhat 5.4 , I try to login as nagiosadmin with the password supplied by the Nagiosxi “re8ue”, it did not work. Then I reset the password for nagiosadmin, the password was mailed to root@localhost, which is not a valid user. How can I add another valid userid so tha...