Changing admin password to default

Hi Gerald,

You can create a password hash with Python and the Bcrypt library. Run this single command in your terminal to get a hash for passwordGoesHere:

$ python -c ‘import bcrypt; hash = bcrypt.hashpw(“passwordGoesHere”, bcrypt.gensalt(rounds=10, prefix=b"2a")); print(hash);’

You can insert the resulting hash directly into the database for the admin user.

Note: If you do not have the Bcrypt library in your Python installation, you should add it with pip. The following will install all prerequisites on a CentOS 6 system:

$ yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel python-pip

$ pip install --user bcrypt

Before attempting to change the admin user password in the database, visit the front page of a new installation to have DHIS2 generate data in the database for the admin user (you can do something as simple as $ curl -sL http://localhost:8080/). Then, you can enter the following query into the Postgres CLI with the DHIS2 database in use:

UPDATE USERS SET password = ‘001122hashgoeshere221100’ WHERE username = ‘admin’;

Restart the application server (Tomcat) and then you should be able to log in with your new password passwordGoesHere or what you changed it to.

Regards,

Alan

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:02 AM, gerald thomas gerald17006@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

I am setting up a training server for staff and i am using dhis2 live

to achieve the task but i am using one of our database rather than the

default database. I had already used the following query to change the

admin password:

UPDATE users set password = ‘48e8f1207baef1ef7fe478a57d19f2e5’

where username = ‘admin’;

What am i doing which is wrong and why i can’t login with username:

admin password: district

Regards,

Gerald


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