How to Change OwnCloud Admin Password

If you ever forget our owncloud admin password, here is how to reset it.

First, you must be able to login with root privilege user on the server. Here, I will ssh into the server.

$ ssh server_admin@server_ip_address

Note that server_admin is the username for the server system (Ubuntu in my case) and server_ip_address is the IP address of the server.

Once you are logged in, you need to run

$ sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/owncloud/occ user:resetpassword owncloud_admin

Here, I am assuming that you followed my previous post, so owncloud folder path is /var/www/html/owncloud. Replace owncloud_admin with your owncloud admin username, whose password you want to reset.

That's it!