reset admin password without ssh

[tasiotas]

Hi,

I installed Lychee via FTP. How can I reset admin password without ssh access ?

Thank you

[ildyria]

You can't. You need to write a small script that you upload yourself and execute it.
As this is extremely unsafe, such thing will never be implemented in Lychee.

You can try this script in reset_admin.php which you place in <path_to_lychee>/public/reset_admin.php and then access it from your web. Do be sure to delete the script once done. I have no clue if it works but it is worth a try.

<?php

exec("cd ..; php artisan lychee:reset_admin", $output, $retval);
echo "Returned with status $retval and output:\n";
print_r($output);

[tasiotas]

yey, it worked!

Just had to use create_user --may-administrate instead of reset_admin

Thank you

[tasiotas]

this doesnt work on v5 anymore

returns:

Returned with status 255 and output: Array ( )

I don't see any changes to create_user, any ideas?

[ildyria]

Have you tried lychee:update_user <username> <password> (without the < and > obviously) ?

[tasiotas]

yes

<?php

exec("cd ..; php artisan lychee:update_user lycheadmin4 fhdFD34GFdd@#d", $output, $retval);
echo "Returned with status $retval and output:\n";
print_r($output);

[tasiotas]

I found clue in error.log
Composer was complaining about PHP version. Once I updated it to >=8.2 it worked again

sorry for trouble