Reset password on RPi for user not SSH

[fatboyslim]

I have followed

Force reset password?

A colleague has OSMC set up on a Raspberry Pi, and a few months ago they reset the ssh password for user osmc. Unfortunately they’ve now forgotten what that password was, so can it be reset either via the GUI or some other way please? They are using ssh osmc@ip but both the default pass and what they thought it was set to doesn’t work anymore. Thanks.

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Force reset password?

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Using above instructions I did successfully change SSH password [not the intention ] but osmc user password remained unchanged

During restart I can’t get into recovery console - holding CTRL / SHIFT
Keyboard is working as I have already run instructions from above link

No one was messing locally with system

I wanted to avoid redoing everything as some work was put into configuration…

[ooZee]

@fatboyslim

not the intention

What was your intention then? passwd osmc does not change “ssh password”, because there’s no such thing, but user password, which can also be used to access device via ssh. so if you[quote=“fatboyslim, post:1, topic:37444”]
did successfully change SSH password
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then you should be able to ssh to the pi. Unless you changed something in /etc/ssh/sshd.conf maybe?

[fatboyslim]

honest to God
for couple of months [since setting up] I was having separate pass to SSH and osmc user
I was using SSH pass every time trough PuttY on Windows trough short-cut, so I can still see the pass used. And then pass for user osmc was different - used to log in to HDDs attached to RPi for Sync

Now I have new simple pass for SSH [the one I obtained by running ‘passwd osmc’] which works in PuttY, but same doesn’t work to log in to HDD under RPi [ I use ES Explorer on Android to on demand login to HDDs under RPi or SyncMe for regular syncs that for months had same password till it went bonkers]

I didn’t paly with conf files since setup

I just run
tesparm
I got returned

Processing section “[automount template]”
params.c:Parameter() - Ignoring badly formed line in configuration file: osmc@osmc:~$ cat /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf

I missed idea that it might be samba not working ok, although I still don’t know what to do

[ooZee]

You can try to change samba password with

sudo smbpasswd -a osmc

[fatboyslim]

Thanks OZ!
That was it, samba password was not set at all
So what I understand I have same username for samba and SSH? that’s why I have mixed up what is what?

[ooZee]

@fatboyslim

I have same username for samba and SSH?

Yup. Enjoy your OSMC

[sam_nazarko]

@fatboyslim

So what I understand I have same username for samba and SSH? that’s why I have mixed up what is what?

Same username, but the passwords can be different.

Sam