Rather interestingly I've just discovered that the admin password is now stored
within the mysql database in a temporary_password table. The instructions in
the FAQs are out of date.
Viewing this table on my secondary server shows (obviously I've changed the
password here):
mysql> select * from temporary_password;
+-------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+---------+---------------------+
| pid | password | valid_from | expiration |
access_duration | access_level | category | sponsor | unregdate |
+-------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+---------+---------------------+
| admin | password | 2014-05-01 16:31:26 | 2038-01-01 00:00:00 | 9999D
| ALL | 1 | 0 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
+-------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------+---------+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
So, the password IS there.
So, after a little brain wave I realised that packetfence might not have the
credentials to access the pf database on the secondary server, which are stored
in pf.conf
I copied over the pf.conf file from primary to secondary, changing the hostname
and IP addresses and I can now access it all with no issues.
Cheers,
Andi
From: Morris, Andi [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 02 May 2014 12:33
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Change web interface admin password via CLI
I should have said that I also cannot get in using the default password of
'admin'
From: Morris, Andi [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 02 May 2014 12:17
To:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [PacketFence-users] Change web interface admin password via CLI
Hi all,
When setting up a HA pair of Packetfence servers everything goes well up until
the configuration of the separate servers. With the primary the active server I
log in and run through the configurator as usual with no problems. Now because
my mysql database replicates to the secondary server using DRBD running the
configurator on the secondary will not work, so I just go to
https://secondarypf:1443/admin, however because I haven't run the configurator
I cannot login to the admin interface with the username and password I setup
for the primary server......a bit of a catch 22.
What's the best way of getting the second server configured with the web
interface admin password?
As an aside, is there a good way of replicating the entire config, replacing
the hostname and IP addresses where applicable?
Cheers,
Andi
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IT Security Officer
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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