How to revover or reset password

[0xErnie]

It seems like I lost my password, how can I either set a new one or recover the old one?

[ahaerpfer]

Danger: no guarantees ... this worked for me, it might not work for you!

I assume you are talking about the Baïkal admin password. The hash of the admin PW is stored at the end of Specific/config.php. What worked for me was to delete the config file and re-do the configuration step:

cd /your/install/location/Specific
mv config.php config.php.old
touch ENABLE_INSTALL

and then navigate to

http://yourbaikal.example.com/admin

This should bring up the installation/configuration dialog which also allows to set a new admin PW. When I tried this my SQLite DB file in Specific/db/db.sqlite was untouched, i.e. all the data was still there ...

... anyway, make a backup first!

Cheers
-Andi

[ftoledo]

Another solution:
you can get the defined auth realm in Specific/config.system.php :
then

php -r 'echo md5("admin:the_auth_realm_string:your_new_password');'
and put the result at the end off Specific/config.php file. (in the BAIKAL_ADMIN_PASSWORDHASH define)

[netgusto]

Thanks !

[cimm]

Maybe this could be added to the documentation?

[sicherist]

@ftoledo Thank you. However for it to work I had to change the single quotation mark after the new password to a double quotation mark. The default auth-realm-string was "BaikalDAV". So for future reference:
php -r 'echo md5("admin:BaikalDAV:your_new_password");'

[niouniou49]

HI here thanks for the advice
I have lost my baikal admin password
but I m unable to find the location of the file to be modified, I have a yunohost environnement
could you please help me here?

[ftoledo]

@niouniou49 I'm sorry, I don't use baikal at this time.
this is a old issue, maybe this workaround can not be apply to newest source code.
Saludo!

[e-dschungel]

In Baikal 0.7.2 (don't know in which version the hash changed) the SHA256 Algorithm is used. The config file is located in config/baikal.yaml since 0.7.0.

So to regenerate a hash you need to do
php -r 'echo hash("sha256", "admin:the_auth_realm_string:your_new_password');'

and enter the hash in config/baikal.yaml

[saykosincap]

Hi guys, I have same problem. How can I connect to my baikal x-10 to change the password on config.php? I couldn't reach to config.php file to change the password. I am putting micro sd card to my computer but files cannot read by windows 10. I also try to connect to baikal x10 by usb cable but still couldn't reach the file. Thank you.

[ahaerpfer]

"Baikal X-10" ??? I guess you have taken a wrong turn somewhere 😉 This is about the calendar and contacts server software and not about the mining HW you seem to refer to.

[saykosincap]

Ahhhhhh :)) OK now eveyrhing is clear for me :)) Thank you for your kind help :))