Web Admin Password Reset

Overview

On first launch, you will configure a username and password for a Web Admin user in order to sign into the Web Interface. If you forget these credentials, you will need to create a new Web Admin.

This article goes over how to create a new Web Admin in SFTP Gateway via the command line.

Create a new Web Admin user

Step 1. SSH into the VM on port 2222, and elevate your privileges to root:

sudo su

Step 2. Download the New-Admin.sh script onto your machine:

wget https://thorntech-products.s3.amazonaws.com/sftpgateway/create-admin-user-script/New-Admin.sh

Step 3. Give the script execute permissions:

chmod +x New-Admin.sh

Step 4. Run the script (-u is for username, -p is for password):

./New-Admin.sh -u My-Admin -p MyPass678$

Step 5. Refresh your browser, and on the Sign In page, you can sign in with your newly created Web Admin credentials.

Script contents

For reference, here are the contents of the New-Admin.sh script:

#!/bin/bash

while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
  key="$1"
  case $key in
    -u|--username)
      USERNAME="$2"
      shift
      shift
      ;;
    -p|--password)
      PASSWORD="$2"
      shift
      shift
      ;;
    *)
      break
      ;;
  esac
done

sudo -u postgres psql -d sftpgw -c "BEGIN; \
UPDATE authorities SET authority = 'ROLE_ADMIN_TEMP' WHERE authority = 'ROLE_ADMIN'; \
END;" >/dev/null

JSON='{"username":"'"$USERNAME"'","password":"'"$PASSWORD"'"}'

curl --silent --insecure --location --request POST 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/3.0.0/admin/config' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw $JSON

sudo -u postgres psql -d sftpgw -c "BEGIN; \
UPDATE authorities SET authority = 'ROLE_ADMIN' WHERE authority = 'ROLE_ADMIN_TEMP'; \
END;" >/dev/null