How to reset lost OwnCloud admin password credentials with Linux command

Friday, 28th September 2018

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Some time ago I've explained how to set-up a personal Cloud via OwnCloud on Linux to be able to access and share your data across all your Phone / Notebook / PCs / Tablet devices and be free from Amazon Cloud slavery.

Now as I haven't used a setup of OwnCloud it seems I forgot my OwnCloud password and besides that I am not sure which email address I filled as a recovery email and was lazy to go through all the OwnCloud MySQL database tables, thus I looked for
other ways to recover the forgotten password. Finally I ended up using the command line, below is how OwnCloud 7 admin password can be easily reset (recovered) with occ php command:

 

root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# sudo -u www-data php occ user:resetpassword admin
PHP module intl not installed.
Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

 

An unhandled exception has been thrown:
Exception: Environment not properly prepared. in /var/www/owncloud/lib/private/Console/Application.php:135
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/owncloud/console.php(105): OCConsoleApplication->loadCommands(Object(SymfonyComponentConsoleInputArgvInput), Object(SymfonyComponentConsoleOutputConsoleOutput))
#1 /var/www/owncloud/occ(11): require_once('/var/www/ownclo…')
#2 {main}root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# apt-cache search php|grep -i intl
php-intl – Internationalisation module for PHP [default]
php-symfony-polyfill-intl-grapheme – Symfony polyfill for intl's grapheme_* functions
php-symfony-polyfill-intl-icu – Symfony polyfill for intl's ICU-related data and classes
php-symfony-polyfill-intl-normalizer – Symfony polyfill for intl's Normalizer class and related functions
php7.0-intl – Internationalisation module for PHP
php-symfony-intl – limited replacement layer for the PHP extension intl
php-symfony-locale – deprecated replacement layer for the PHP extension intl
php5-intl – internationalisation module for php5
root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# apt-get install php7.0-intl
Четене на списъците с пакети… Готово
Изграждане на дървото със зависимости       
Четене на информацията за състоянието… Готово
Следните пакети са били инсталирани автоматично и вече не са необходими:
  docutils-common docutils-doc gcj-4.9-jre-lib gnat-4.9-base libasn1-8-heimdal libavcodec56 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54 libbind9-90 libboost-program-options1.55.0 libboost-python1.55.0 libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcrypt-openssl-random-perl
  libdnet libdns-export100 libdns100 libegl1-mesa-drivers libexiv2-13 libgcj15 libglew1.10 libgnat-4.9 libgnutls-openssl27 libgphoto2-port10 libgphoto2-port10:i386 libhcrypto4-heimdal libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libhx509-5-heimdal libimobiledevice4 libinput5 libintl-perl
  libintl-xs-perl libirs-export91 libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90 libjson-c3 libkrb5-26-heimdal libllvm3.5:i386 libllvm3.8 liblognorm1 liblwres90 libntdb1 libopenvg1-mesa libplist2 libprocps3 libpsl0 libroken18-heimdal librrd4 libtfm1
  libusbmuxd2 libvpx1:i386 libwebpdemux1 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux1 libwind0-heimdal libwings2 libwraster3 libwutil3 libx264-142 libxtables10 linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 python-characteristic python-docutils python-ndg-httpsclient python-ntdb python-pil python-pygments
  python-pyinotify python-roman python-twisted-lore python-twisted-mail python-twisted-names python-twisted-news python-twisted-runner python-twisted-words
Използвайте „apt autoremove“ за да ги премахнете.
Следните НОВИ пакети ще бъдат инсталирани:
  php7.0-intl
0 актуализирани, 1 нови инсталирани, 0 за премахване и 1 без промяна.
Необходимо е да се изтеглят 124 kB архиви.
След тази операция ще бъде използвано 523 kB допълнително дисково пространство.
Изт:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 php7.0-intl amd64 7.0.30-0+deb9u1 [124 kB]
Изтеглени 124 kB за 1с (93,7 kB/сек)        

 

Selecting previously unselected package php7.0-intl.
(Reading database … 210111 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/php7.0-intl_7.0.30-0+deb9u1_amd64.deb …
Unpacking php7.0-intl (7.0.30-0+deb9u1) …
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php7.0 (7.0.30-0+deb9u1) …
Setting up php7.0-intl (7.0.30-0+deb9u1) …

Creating config file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/intl.ini with new version
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php7.0 (7.0.30-0+deb9u1) …
root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# occ user:resetpassword admin
bash: occ: командата не е открита
root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# sudo -u www-data php occ user:resetpassword admin
Enter a new password: 
Confirm the new password: 
Successfully reset password for admin
root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# 
 

 

 

root@pcfreak:/var/www/owncloud# sudo -u www-data php occ user:resetpassword admin
Enter a new password: 
Confirm the new password: 
Successfully reset password for admin


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That's all now I can login again to WEB UI interface and use my owncloud-client to synchronize content from my notebook to OwnCloud

 

This method should work work on resetting password of OwnCloud version 7, 8 and 9 on Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS and RHEL) if OwnCoud was installed using rpm / deb packages. 
 

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