how to change directadmin admin password via ssh

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.