[gpfsug-discuss] Password to GUI forgotten

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Hi Kevin,

If you are stuck then please open a PMR and work with the IBM support 
folks to get this resolved.

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From:   "Buterbaugh, Kevin L" <Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu>
To:     "Hanley, Jesse A." <hanleyja at ornl.gov>
Cc:     gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Date:   12/19/2017 01:42 AM
Subject:        Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Password to GUI forgotten
Sent by:        gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org



Hi Jesse, 

Thanks for the suggestion … I find the following error very interesting:

/root
root at testnsd1# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/rmuser admin
EFSSP0010C CLI parser: The object "admin" specified for "userID" does not 
exist.
/root
root at testnsd1#

That says to me that I don’t have an admin user, which - if true - would 
explain why not a single password I can think of works.  ;-)

But as I mentioned in my original post I had this up and working earlier 
this fall.  While I can’t prove anything, I can’t imagine a scenario where 
I would deliberately choose a non-default username.  So if “admin” has 
been the default login for the GPFS GUI all along then I am really 
mystified.

Thanks!

Kevin

On Dec 18, 2017, at 1:58 PM, Hanley, Jesse A. <hanleyja at ornl.gov> wrote:

Kevin,
 
I ran into this a couple times using 4.2.3.  This is what we used to get 
around it:
 
/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/rmuser admin
/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/mkuser admin -p <password> -g 
Administrator,SecurityAdmin
 
You may need to run the initgui command if those objects are present. That 
typically gets run on first login to the GUI.
 
Thanks,
--
Jesse
 
 
From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org> on behalf of "Buterbaugh, 
Kevin L" <Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu>
Reply-To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Date: Monday, December 18, 2017 at 2:52 PM
To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Password to GUI forgotten
 
Hi All, 
 
Sorry for the delay in getting back with you all … didn’t mean to leave 
this hanging, but some higher priority things came up.
 
Bottom line - I’m still stuck and probably going to open up a PMR with IBM 
after sending this.  Richards’ suggestion below errors for me on the “-g 
Administrator” part.  Other suggestions sent directly to me up to and 
including completely deleting the GPFS GUI and reinstalling have also not 
worked.
 
No matter what I do, I cannot log in to the GUI.  Thanks for the 
suggestions, though…
 
Kevin


On Dec 7, 2017, at 6:10 AM, Sobey, Richard A <r.sobey at imperial.ac.uk> 
wrote:
 
Sorry I need to learn to read… didn’t see the “object ‘Administrator’ does 
not exist” error.
 
That said, my workaround for the problem of forgetting the password was to 
create a new “admin2” user and use that to reset the password on admin 
itself.
 
[root at gpfs cli]# ./mkuser admin2 -p Passw0rd -g 
Administrator,SecurityAdmin
EFSSG0019I The user admin2 has been successfully created.
EFSSG1000I The command completed successfully.
 
 
Cheers
Richard
 
From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org [
mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Sobey, 
Richard A
Sent: 07 December 2017 11:57
To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Password to GUI forgotten
 
This happened to me a while back, I opened a pmr to get it sorted but it's 
just a case of running some cli commands. I'll dig it out.
Get Outlook for Android
 

From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org <
gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Buterbaugh, Kevin L 
<Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 10:41:12 PM
To: gpfsug main discussion list
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Password to GUI forgotten
 
All, 
 
/root
root at testnsd1# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chuser admin -p abc1231 -g 
Administrator,SecurityAdmin
EFSSP0010C CLI parser: The object "Administrator" specified for "-g" does 
not exist.
/root
root at testnsd1# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chuser admin -p abc1231 -g 
SecurityAdmin
EFSSP0010C CLI parser: The object "SecurityAdmin" specified for "-g" does 
not exist.
/root
root at testnsd1# 
 
I’ll also add that all of the work I did earlier in the fall was with the 
test cluster running an earlier version of GPFS and it’s subsequently been 
updated to GPFS 4.2.3.5 … not sure that’s relevant but wanted to mention 
it just in case. 
 
Thanks!
 
Kevin



On Dec 6, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Joshua Kwedar <jdkwedar at gmail.com> wrote:
 
Hmm.. odd. 
 
Here’s what the lsuser output should look like. 
 
# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lsuser
Name  Long name Password status Group names                 Failed login 
attempts
admin           active          Administrator,SecurityAdmin 0
EFSSG1000I The command completed successfully.
 
Can you try something like…
 
# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/mkuser admin -p abc1231 -g 
Administrator,SecurityAdmin
 
 
 
From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org> on behalf of "Buterbaugh, 
Kevin L" <Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu>
Reply-To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 5:15 PM
To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Password to GUI forgotten
 
All, 
 
Sorry - should’ve mentioned that:
 
/root
root at testnsd1# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chuser admin -p abc1231
EFSSG0001C Cannot validate option: login
/root
root at testnsd1# /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lsuser -Y
lsuser:user:HEADER:version:reserved:reserved:Name:Long name:Password 
status:Group names:Failed login attempts:
/root
root at testnsd1# 
 
Weird - it’s like the login doesn’t exist … but like I said, I had logged 
into it prior to November.  Thanks...
 
Kevin
 
On Dec 6, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Joshua Kwedar (froz1) <jdkwedar at gmail.com> 
wrote:
 
The GUI password can be changed via command line using chuser.
 
/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chuser
 
Usage is as follows (where userID = admin)
 
chuser userID {-p <newPassword> | -l <longName> | -a <name_or_id> | -d 
<name_or_id> | -g <name_or_id> | --expirePassword} [-o <currentPassword>]
 
Josh K

On Dec 6, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Buterbaugh, Kevin L <
Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:
Hi All, 
 
So this is embarrassing to admit but I was playing around with setting up 
the GPFS GUI on our test cluster earlier this fall.  However, I was gone 
pretty much the entire month of November for a combination of vacation and 
SC17 and the vacation was so relaxing that I’ve forgotten the admin 
password for the GPFS GUI.  :-(
 
Is there anything I can do to recover from this short of deleting the GPFS 
GUI related RPM’s, re-installing, and starting over from scratch?  If 
that’s what I have to do, it’s no big deal as this is just our little 
6-node test cluster, but I thought I’d ask before going down that route.
 
Oh, and if someone has a way to accomplish this that they’d rather not 
share in a public mailing list for any reason, please feel free to e-mail 
me directly, let me know, and I won’t tell if you won’t tell (and 
hopefully Michael Flynn won’t tell either!)…. ;-)
 
Thanks…
 
—
Kevin Buterbaugh - Senior System Administrator
Vanderbilt University - Advanced Computing Center for Research and 
Education
Kevin.Buterbaugh at vanderbilt.edu - (615)875-9633
 
 
 
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