diff --git a/admin_manual/configuration_user/reset_admin_password.rst b/admin_manual/configuration_user/reset_admin_password.rst index 1f817a450..9bbad3e9b 100644 --- a/admin_manual/configuration_user/reset_admin_password.rst +++ b/admin_manual/configuration_user/reset_admin_password.rst @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ The normal ways to recover a lost password are: 2. Ask another Nextcloud 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 ``nextcloud`` directory, for -example ``/var/www/nextcloud/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 on Ubuntu Linux:: +using the ``occ`` command. See :doc:`../configuration_server/occ_command` to +learn more about using the ``occ`` command. + +:: $ sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ user:resetpassword admin Enter a new password: @@ -24,13 +24,3 @@ user, as in this example on Ubuntu Linux:: If your Nextcloud username is not ``admin``, then substitute your Nextcloud 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 - -See :doc:`../configuration_server/occ_command` to learn more about using the -``occ`` command.