Friday, June 11, 2010

Changing password on iFolder 3.8 without LDAP

I ran into a problem when trying to change the admin password on my iFolder 3.8 installation. It didn't work to run simias-server-setup again. The old password was still active.

This is how did it:
/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/simias/bin/UserCmd.exe setpwd --url http://localhost --admin-name admin --admin-password (current password) --user admin --password (new password)

on 64-bit OS, the "lib" folder is "lib64"

You can use this to change users password too:
/usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/simias/bin/UserCmd.exe setpwd --url http://localhost --admin-name admin --admin-password (admin password) --user (username) --password (new user password)

Thank you Jeremy :)

A little update on this. You can also add and delete users with this tool. Use delete or create, instead of setpwd.

7 comments:

  1. This is very helpful and it works for iFolder 3.7.2 as well. Thank you very much.

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  2. what if one has lost the admin password?

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  3. I only got: Failed - Invalid admin credentials, are the '--url http://localhost' always working or am I supposed to change this to the path where iFolder administration web page is located. Thx.

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  4. Hello,

    thank you so much for posting this. I have used with version 3.8.0.0 and it worked great. I am running the latest version of server and clients however, I could not change the initial user passwords but your note gave me a good work around. I hope they fix this in the future versions. It is really bad that users can not change their passwords.

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  5. Sorry for late reply, I noticed I didn't have email notification on replies.

    Stephen:
    Thank you :) You're welcome!

    Stanley:
    If you have lost the admin password, you could try run simias-server-setup again, but keep in mind that you have to set it up exactly the same as before.

    Gustav:
    You could try using the server IP instead, but localhost should work.

    jafar1987:
    Thank you :) glad this helped you on the way. If you have AD in your environment, you should try using that as authentication source, that way the users can change their password.

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  6. Gustav:
    I had the same error DO NOT USE HTTPS or try to correct the path the "http://localhost" is critical (no idea why) and must be written exactly as that.

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