V-change-user-password - strange response

reuven · July 20, 2023, 1:35am

I restarted the VPS and cannot login to Hestiacp.
The websites that I set previousely work well.

I try to change pasword and get the following:
v-change-user-password admin NewPassword123
/usr/local/hestia/func/main.sh: line 1573: /usr/local/hestia/conf/hestia.conf: Permission denied
Error: user admin doesn’t exist
/usr/local/hestia/func/main.sh: line 102: /usr/local/hestia/log/error.log: Permission denied
$ sudo v-change-user-password admin NewPassword123
sudo: v-change-user-password: command not found

I see all the commands in /usr/local/hestia/bin and also I checked with less /etc/passwd and user admin does exit

What is wrong?
Thank you

anon95304325 · July 20, 2023, 2:09am

Are you logged in as root?

eris · July 20, 2023, 5:08am

sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin NewPassword123

or sudo -s
/usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin NewPassword123

reuven · July 20, 2023, 5:27pm

Thank you eris.
I tried both. Does not work. See below:
$ sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin NewPassword123
/usr/local/hestia/func/main.sh: line 1573: /usr/local/hestia/conf/hestia.conf: P ermission denied
Error: invalid IP format :: /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password
/usr/local/hestia/func/main.sh: line 102: /usr/local/hestia/log/error.log: Permi ssion denied
$ sudo -s /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-change-user-password admin NewPassword123

Changing password for admin.
chpasswd: (user admin) pam_chauthtok() failed, error:
Authentication token manipulation error
chpasswd: (line 1, user admin) password not changed
Error: Password not accepted due to PAM restrictions

reuven · July 20, 2023, 5:28pm

Thank you kristankenney.
See below

eris · July 20, 2023, 6:21pm

Error: Password not accepted due to PAM restrictions

Use a different password NewPassword123 seems to be not allowed due to your pam restrictions or change the restorations in /etc/pam.d/

reuven · July 20, 2023, 9:21pm

I tried a few different passwords, but get the same error:
Error: Password not accepted due to PAM restrictions

eris · July 20, 2023, 9:24pm

This is the code we run:

github.com

hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/f696c0aebb681f6a41157ad121b0a5aaea1ea709/bin/v-change-user-password#L49-L55


      
          # Changing user password
          echo "$user:$password" | /usr/sbin/chpasswd
          
          if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
          	echo "Error: Password not accepted due to PAM restrictions"
          	exit 2
          fi

See:

for a solution?

reuven · July 23, 2023, 12:43am

The server was behaving strangely and I abandoned it. On another server everything works fine.
Unlike in the past, it is not possible to login with a password that includes special characters, only letters and numbers.
Thank you very much for your help.

eris · July 23, 2023, 4:55am

Special chars should be working fine make sure to use single quotes …