![Screen Shot 2019-05-11 at 20.42.12.png](https://www.unixtutorial.org/images/Screen-Shot-2019-05-11-at-20.42.12.png)
If you had forgotten the OpenMediaVault Default Login defaults, this post should help you reset it.
I am putting some finishing touches to my OpenMeviaVault based setup of Helios 4 NAS system. I forgot that I got the default password changed in OMV, so it seems I locked myself out using default password. This meant I had to reset the web admin password. I still had my SSH access, so this post shows steps of completing the recovery.
Run the omv-firstaid command as root
For both steps of this procedure, the easiest is to run omv-firstaid command as root. It's pretty cool that someone on the OpenMediaVault thought of the typical issues one might run into and prepared a tool like this.
You SSH as the default user (the one you created upon first boot after Armbian install on Helios 4), become root and run omv-firstaid (no command-line options):
![Screen Shot 2019-05-11 at 20.25.41.png](https://www.unixtutorial.org/images/Screen-Shot-2019-05-11-at-20.25.41.png)
Reset Failed Login Counters in OpenMediaVault
The OMV setup keeps track of failed logins and you can see it by using the omv-firstaid command.
Select the Reset failed login attempt counter menu item:
![Screen Shot 2019-05-11 at 20.36.05.png](https://www.unixtutorial.org/images/Screen-Shot-2019-05-11-at-20.36.05.png)
And you should see the list of accounts with failed login attempts:
![Screen Shot 2019-05-05 at 23.45.16.png](https://www.unixtutorial.org/images/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-23.45.16.png)
After we select a user (I chose admin in my case) there will be a confirmation shown:
![Screen Shot 2019-05-05 at 23.45.26.png](https://www.unixtutorial.org/images/Screen-Shot-2019-05-05-at-23.45.26.png)
Change the OpenMediaVault password
Now we start the omv-firstaid command again and select the following option:
![Screen Shot 2019-05-11 at 20.25.41.png](https://www.unixtutorial.org/images/Screen-Shot-2019-05-11-at-20.25.41-1.png)
That's pretty much it! Hope it helps if you ever have the same issue.
Leave a Reply