Direct admin is one of the most generally using control panel in web web hosting service industry. In this panel we can set different security passwords for SSH root and control panel Admin.
First of all access your direct admin control panel.
URL : http://IP Address:2222/ User name : admin Password : password
If you forgot your direct admin control panel’s password, it is easy to recover from server via SSH.
Step 1: Login to server via SSH;
Step 2: There is a file ‘/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt‘ which containing the control panels details. Just view that file to get your control panel’s admin credential.
[root@server]# cat /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt hostname=your.host.name.com email=ad@gdfgdgting.com mysql=B8fcQfsfsfiHD mysqluser=dafsf_admin adminname=admin adminpass=puMGGv5N ns1=ns1.nameserver.com ns2=ns2.nameserver.com ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask uid=2656 lid=1635 services=services_esfg50.tar.gz
You can simply edit the line ‘adminpass=’ to change the admin password and save it.