How To Reset Cacti Admin Password?

 How To Reset Cacti Admin Password

To recover Cacti Admin password you need to follow the following Steps.

1. Login to cacti MySQL/MariaDB server with root Password.

Use the following command to login the MySQL/MariaDB server as root. Please provide the password for root user.

# mysql -uroot cacti -p

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2. After entering the password, use the following MySQL commands to reset the cacti Admin user password.

MariaDB [cacti]> use cacti;

MariaDB [cacti]> update user_auth set password=md5('admin') where username='admin';

MariaDB [cacti]> quit;

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In our example, we changed the admin user password to admin.