Macos - Reset your password

If you need help doing this then:

• Right click for instructions here.

This is the command to type in:

/Applications/IguanaX.app/Contents/MacOS/iguana --reset_admin_user

This will reset your password. This is what you might expect to see:

This will restart the IguanaX server from the command line:

/Applications/IguanaX.app/Contents/MacOS/iguana --service install

Alternatively right click on this link:

Macos - Stopping and starting Iguana

for instructions on stopping and starting your IguanaX server.

When the login prompt comes up you should be able to login with admin and the newly generated password.

Most MacOS users install Iguana in the /Applications folder. Ever wondered what one of these pretty icons is under the hood? If you are curious, right click and view:

Macos - The IguanaX Package

On MacOS when you see a pretty application icon in that folder, it’s actually a hidden directory called IguanaX.app which you can go inside.

The instructions given above meant that we went inside that folder and invoked the program file that is Iguana to change the password to “temp”.

What happens if you installed somewhere else other than Applications?

Then you will need to enter the path slightly differently altering the part of the path in the red box: