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To login to Iguana you will need at least one login account. You can create an admin account using the command line:

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If you can get to the command line the computer running Iguana you will be able to reset the password for the admin user of IguanaX.

One tip - don’t use special characters when reseting your password at the the command line. This is because of problems with command lines in each different operating system.

Use something simple and reset it in the GUI later.

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titleStep 1 - Windows instructions to reset your password

Open a DOS prompt.

You will need to navigate to the directory you installed Iguana in. Most likely:

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cd C:\program files\IguanaX\

Then type the following command:

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iguana --set_admin_password 
<password>
temppass

This will

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In either case, the admin account will be updated to ensure that it contains admin privileges, by making sure the description contains #admin as part of it.

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reset the admin password to use the password “temppass”.

Then you will need to restart your Iguana server.

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titleStep 1 - Macos instructions to reset your password

Open the Terminal program (instructions here).

Then navigate to inside the Applications package you have Iguana in:

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cd /Applications/IguanaX.app/Contents/MacOS/

Inside this directory you should see the iguana binary. You can invoke it like this:

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./iguana --set_admin_password temppass

This sets up a temporary password for the admin user which after you restart the server you can use to log in.

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titleStep 1 - Linux instructions to reset your password

Navigate to the directory you have the Iguana binary installed in. Often times this is home directory of the user account that Iguana is running under. Then execute this command:

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./iguana --
service restart
set_admin_password temppass

You will then need to restart your Iguana server.

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titleStep 2 - Restart Iguana

See Stopping and Starting Iguana for detailed instructions on how to do this.