Can you change default admin creds if you dont have password?

Hi Thomas - welcome to the UTM Community!

You can hook up a keyboard and a monitor to the device running UTM and login as root.  If you've never logged in as root, you will be presented with an opportunity to create the password for it.  Once you're in at the command line, you can change the admin password to P4ssw*rd with the following command:

cc passwd P4ssw*rd

Cheers - Bob

So when installing you have to choose root password, I did that. Used that password to get everything up. Once i created a new admin account (which works for everything not sure why you cannot have ssh access with it). I changed root password to a super random one that i will win the lotto guessing before ever do on the key board. If i could change the attempts to infiity i could brute force it but unfortunately cant do that either :-).

If you lost admin-password and root-password you have the option to do a cold root password recovry at linux-level.

cool, is there a doc somewhere i can follow?

So rebooting and seeing what i could find there was an option to choose firmware and boot into a troubleshooting mode, which was an option that had the ability to reset password to default. I am good now thanks for the direction.

Guides:

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/115346

https://www.fastvue.co/sophos/blog/reset-sophos-utm-webadmin-password/

my way: booting from live linux CD and removing encrypted password for root user from 2 files (passwd and something with "shadow" i think) works too.

Guides:

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/115346

https://www.fastvue.co/sophos/blog/reset-sophos-utm-webadmin-password/

my way: booting from live linux CD and removing encrypted password for root user from 2 files (passwd and something with "shadow" i think) works too.