Admin Password being hacked

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I think someone has hack my system as I'm no longer able to login as admin. Or probably it's because I'm request someone to install some script by giving him the root access.

Anyone know how to reset the directadmin admin password?

Please help.

 

[jmstacey]

If you still have console access or ssh access through root you can change the password that way.

In freebsd its the "passwd" command.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=passwd&sektion=1

It should be somewhat similar for RedHat etc.

Other than that, you would need to contact someone at your datacenter and hopefully they can login with your root password, if not.......

 

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hi,
Thanks for the assistance. I've the root password to the server but it seems my admin password to directadmin is changed.

What command should I use to reset the directadmin admin password? I can access the server using the root password.

Regards

 

[jmstacey]

If your running FreeBSD you can run this:

passwd admin

It will ask you to enter the new password. You should then be able to login to directadmin

Edit:I believe you use "nwpasswd" in place of passwd on RedHat.

 

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Thatks a lot! It's now OK. My server is using FreeBSD. I can login to directadmin now.

I'm really appreciate it.

Regards