How to reset forgotten password on osmc

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Hello,

I´m newbe here, I have RPi2 for a week.
So, as one of first things I did reset osmc user password, suddenly a week later, I cannot login anymore. Password worked OK 2 days ago, then I did update in My OSMC to the 2015-11-02 version and osmc, neither root password working.

I spent yesterday on Google to searching for “How to reset forgotten password on osmc”, but I did not succeed.

Please can somebody advise how to reset these passwords?
Thank you very much in advance.

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Can you clarify a couple of points, as your original post doesn’t seem to make sense (there is no password reset facility in OSMC).

  • did you change the password for OSMC, and, if so, how did you do that?
  • did you change the root password?
  • how are you trying to log in?
    Derek
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There is no root password by default in OSMC - you should be logging in as osmc.

You need to clarify how you are trying to log in, whether via SSH or via the local console.

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Have you done lots of configuration to it? If it’s pretty much a vanilla untouched install then might be easiest all round to simply reinstall. Obviously this is not really that appealing if you’ve done a whole load of customisation to it.

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Hi all,

thank you for replies…

  1. I login as osmc and changed password: sudo passwd osmc
  2. I ran: sudo su - and then passwd root
  3. I use Putty for login to the RPi2

Both passwords works OK till I ran update from My OSMC in the Kodi GUI…
I´m used to work as root, same as in the work, once Sysadmin, forever sysadamin :smile:
Is there something similar like on the full Linux the single user mode?

I ran, actually still running, the MCM over the video files on the NAS and I did not done any major configuration on the RPi2, so I guess overwrite the flash disk with OSMC imaage will the the fastest solution, isn´t it?

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Ok so rather than a forgotten login it might just be an SSH problem. I don’t know if this is possible but can you try uninstalling SSH and reinstalling it via the app store?

If it was me, i’d just reinstall but i have a pretty straight forward install as well as an installation script of my setup steps so that i can be up and running again in 20mins (Except scraping my library which i can leave it doing).

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The SSh is running, as per OSMC stated this…

I got this when I trying login…
login as: osmc
osmc@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’s password:
Access denied

and same for root :frowning:

OK, I will try reinstall the SSH in the OSMC GUI… if it won´t help, then I will do fresh install…
ehm, just yesterday I put RPi2 with fan to the box, I hoped I will not take it out for looooong time :cry:

MCM still progressing all the Video files, so I guess I have still plenty of time, I never realized how many movies have same name :worried:

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I uninstall SSH in the My OSMC and then installed it back…
Suddenly,it did not help :sob:

So, I´m gonna wipe the FlashSD and start over from scratch again :rocket:

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Didn’t think it would help but had to be worth a try.

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To be honest there are plenty of solutions how to reset the root password but the question is if they are worth the effort as you simply could create a backup (from MyOSMC) and reimage the SD Card.

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OK, so SDcard wiped by SDFormatter…
Downloaded the latest image OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20151129.img.gz
Installation is running…

Then I will do the update first…

So, this topic can be closed with solution: Not possible to reset osmc/root password easily, the fastest way is to complete reinstall.

Thank you all for advises.