How do I reset the admin password?

Overview

If you are unable to log in to the web-based Urchin Administrative GUI as the admin user due to the password being lost or corrupted, do not despair! You can still reset the password as long as you can gain some type of command line access to the system running Urchin with the privileges of the user that Urchin runs as.

Procedure

On UNIX-type systems:

Invoke a shell as the user that Urchin runs as, and change directory to the Urchin distribution. Then type type the following (line breaks added for readability):

cd util
./uconf-driver action=set_parameter  table=user \
               name="(admin)"  ct_password=urchin

On a Windows system

Start up a Command Prompt window and type the following (line breaks added for readability):

cd \Program Files\Urchin\util
uconf-driver  action=set_parameter  table=user \
              name="(admin)"  ct_password=urchin

In both examples, this sets the admin password to be "urchin".