Add page howto reset passwords with occ

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Carla Schroder
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Recovering Lost Admin Password
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The normal ways to recover a lost password are:
1. Click the password reset link on the login screen; this appears after a
failed login attempt. This works only if you have entered your email address
on your Personal page in the ownCloud Web interface, so that the ownCloud
server can email a reset link to you.
2. Ask your ownCloud server admin to reset it for you.
If neither of these is an option, then you have a third option, and that is
using the ``occ`` command. ``occ`` is in the ``owncloud`` directory, for
example ``/var/www/owncloud/occ``. ``occ`` has a command for resetting all
user passwords, ``user:resetpassword``. It is best to run ``occ`` as the HTTP
user, as in this example::
$ sudo -u www-data /var/www/owncloud/occ user:resetpassword admin
Enter a new password:
Confirm the new password:
Successfully reset password for admin
If your ownCloud username is not ``admin``, then substitute your ownCloud
username.
You can find your HTTP user in your HTTP configuration file. These are the
default Apache HTTP user:group on Linux distros:
* Centos, Red Hat, Fedora: apache:apache
* Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint: www-data:www-data
* openSUSE: wwwrun:www