I tried to change my admin password through shh putty.
used root and command "v-change-user-password admin my new password"
i get error -bash: hn: No such file or directory
help I am frustrated i cannot access my control panel
go to the correct directory to execute it..
I went to this directory sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password
i still get the same error
Double check that you are using single quotes for the password:
/usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin 'HereYourPassword'
thanks sahsanu after /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin ‘HereYourPassword’
after that i am asked to log in or what command follows…
After that, just try to login to the panel with the user admin and the new password.
I keep on getting Invalid username or password even with new password
Show the output of these commands:
df -h
tail -20 /var/log/hestia/nginx-error.log
ls -lrt /usr/local/hestia/data/sessions | tail -n5
namei -l /usr/local/hestia/data/sessions
root@\~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.2G 0 1.2G 0% /dev
tmpfs 249M 648K 249M 1% /run
/dev/vda1 42G 12G 29G 29% /
tmpfs 1.3G 0 1.3G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.3G 0 1.3G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /run/user/0
root@r\~# tail -20 /var/log/hestia/nginx-error.log
2026/06/07 15:45:52 \[error\] 665#0: \*12 open() "/usr/local/hestia/web/em_hou__c2g aae" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 66.132.172.109, server: \_, r equest: "GET /em_hou__c2gaae HTTP/1.1", host:
2026/06/07 16:57:11 \[error\] 665#0: \*24 open() "/usr/local/hestia/web/.well-known /security.txt" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 66.132.172.39, ser ver: \_, request: "GET /.well-known/security.txt HTTP/1.1", host:
root@:\~# ls -lrt /usr/local/hestia/data/sessions | tail -n5
-rw------- 1 hestiaweb hestiaweb 0 Jun 7 11:58 sess_scr38q9rr3b2u1upvn0bvrq9 nu
-rw------- 1 hestiaweb hestiaweb 2606 Jun 7 11:58 sess_qmcdptbue5aue3cu0ijjj6rg 9e
-rw------- 1 hestiaweb hestiaweb 2607 Jun 7 15:03 sess_6e2ubc5j0tfildbs3qgtoqh2 3t
-rw------- 1 hestiaweb hestiaweb 0 Jun 7 16:55 sess_gdfhv2tq01r274rrbsnkps2h mt
-rw------- 1 hestiaweb hestiaweb 2607 Jun 7 16:55 sess_58t12phn24l1qmn91n74vlvr ni
root@:\~# namei -l /usr/local/hestia/data/sessions
~# namei -l /usr/local/hestia/data/sessions
f: /usr/local/hestia/data/sessions
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root usr
drwxr-xr-x root root local
drwxr-xr-x root root hestia
drwxr-xr-x root root data
drwxrwx--- hestiaweb hestiaweb sessions
root@:~#
I see no problem.
You could try to reinstall the hestia package.
apt reinstall hestia
quick question i have not backed up my work, i am i going to loose everything after reinstall.
No, you shouldn’t lost anything but make a copy of the dir just in case.
mkdir -p /root/backup_hestia_before_reinstall
cd /root/backup_hestia_before_reinstall/
tar zcf hestia-backup.tar.gz /usr/local/hestia
apt reinstall hestia
After that command I tried /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin ‘mynewpassword’
i tried logging in i get Invalid username or password
help
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