Password reset

If you lost your Filescan admin credentials, you can follow the steps below to reset your password.

You need the email address of your Filescan user for the password reset!

Please log in to your Filescan instance (via SSH), and start a bash shell in the fsio docker container:

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Go to the src/scripts folder and check if the set_password.py script is already present there:

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If you see the following output, you can skip to the next step:

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If the script is not present or incomplete, please copy-paste the contents above and create the file using a text editor:

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Save the script when you exit nano!

Please substitute the email address and the desired new password and execute the script like this:

Keep in mind that the password should be within single quotes and it must contain NUMBERS, LOWERCASE and UPPERCASE letters!

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If the password does not meet the requirements, you will see an error message like this:

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If everything works fine, you will see New password is set :

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