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Default Credentials for the NMIS8 VM
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Shell/Console Access, SSH
Please note: this is for logging in to the the virtual appliance interactively, i.e. on your VM console or via SSH. This is not the password for the Web GUI!
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These are the passwords for the NMIS Web GUI, which won't work for the VM console or SSH.
- nmis/nm1888
- admin/password
- (VM Appliances before 8.6.0G: nmisadm/nm1888)
Open-AudIT Web Users
- admin/password
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- root/openauditrootuserpassword
Changing the Credentials
Console/System
To change the Unix Console passwords, either login as the user in question and run the passwd command, or login as (or become) the superuser and run passwd otheruser.
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# to change the thiscurrent user's password (which you might want to check by running "id" first passwd # to change the nmis user password sudo , if you're the superuser passwd nmis |
Web
If you have not changed the NMIS Authentication configurationTo change the Web Users passwords, if you have not integrated Apache with another form of Authentication, it will be using the default method which are users defined in a file managed with htpasswd.
In all VM Appliance releases since 2015 the htpasswd file is shared between NMIS and the Opmantek applications (except Open-AudIT Community).
The default installation location for NMIS8 NMIS is /usr/local/nmis8 , (it may be installed somewhere else, adjust the commands accordingly).
To update the password for web user SOMEUSER, run the following commands as user nmis or root:
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Important: in versions up to and including 8.5G, NMIS only supports crypt as password hashing method. Depending on your operating system your htpasswd program may default to the MD5 method and in that case you must include the -d argument as shown above.
Further info regarding authentication and user management can be found on the User Management in NMIS8 page.
Default Credentials for the NMIS4 VM
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