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LXD not installed and can not change password #316

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NicolasGoeddel opened this issue Jul 29, 2020 · 6 comments
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LXD not installed and can not change password #316

NicolasGoeddel opened this issue Jul 29, 2020 · 6 comments

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@NicolasGoeddel
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Hi,

the installation procedure did not mention if I have to install lxdui as root or as normal user. But I saw in the automated installation script that you are installing it with the --useroption on pip install. So I decided to create a new user and installed it there.
After cloning and pip install . --user I started it with python3 run.py start. I was able to connect to the webinterface but I didn't know the password, but I finally guessed admin:admin right. It seemed that I am not able to change the password.

So I went one step back and found out that I had to run python3 run.py init first which was not mentioned in the installation guide. As I run that I was asked for my password which I entered twice and that's it. Starting the webinterface again the new password was wrong. Instead I had to use admin again. So how can I change that password? I can not run it on a public IP like that and also not over http, I need to proxy it behind Apache.

At the moment all i can see is this:
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How can I tell it where my LXD installation is? It's a snap installation on Ubuntu 18.04 with lots of productive containers already running. Was I wrong with installing it as a normal user? Do I have to install it as root?
@NicolasGoeddel
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I just found the first answer by myself:
I had to add the user lxdui to the group lxd. Let's make this a feature request for the documentation.

But one question still exists: How to change the password for the admin account?

@NicolasGoeddel
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I just changed the bind address of in app/api/controllers/terminal.py to 127.0.0.1 and reinstalled the package again with pip install . --user. Now it does not work no more.

lxdui@server:~/lxdui$ lxdui init
Password: 
Repeat for confirmation: 
Initialize and configure LXDUI
LXDUI is now configured.  You can now use the admin account to log in to the app.
lxdui@server:~/lxdui$ lxdui user list
User Accounts:
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
lxdui@server:~$ lxdui user update
Password: 
Repeat for confirmation: 
Change user password
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init
lxdui@server:~$ lxdui start
LXDUI ver. 2.1.2 -- (c)AdaptiveScale, Inc.
http://www.adaptivescale.com
LXDUI started. Running on http://0.0.0.0:15151
PID=23060, Press CTRL+C to quit
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init 
Please initialize LXDUI first.  e.g: lxdui init

What can I do about this? Everytime I try to login using the webinterface I see this line and the new and the old password seem to be wrong. How often do I have to initialize lxdui? Where is its configuration so I can modify and validate it by myself?

@NicolasGoeddel
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NicolasGoeddel commented Jul 29, 2020 •
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Again my fault. I accidentally renamed auth.conf to auth.conf.old while trying to force a new password for the admin account. Now I can login again but I am still not able to change the password. I tried this:

lxdui@server:~$ lxdui user update
Password: 
Repeat for confirmation: 
Change user password

But after a lxdui start it's again the same password. I do not understand.

@NicolasGoeddel NicolasGoeddel changed the title LXD not installed LXD not installed and can not change password Jul 29, 2020
@NicolasGoeddel
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It looks like the interface is just not that verbose and does not tell if something was wrong. The correct call is:

lxdui user update -u admin

Now the password got changed correctly.

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vhajdari commented Jul 29, 2020 via email

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I found the issue, you need to use the non-CLI command: "python3 run.py user update -u admin" to change pw for admin. This also works persitently across reboots.

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