How to reset Ant Media Server admin password?

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If you use a Local database (internal database), please follow the following instructions.

Step.1: Go to the installation directory of Ant Media Server.

cd /usr/local/antmedia

Step.2: Remove "server.db" file.

sudo rm server.db

Step.3: Restart Ant Media Server.

sudo service antmedia restart

If you use MongoDB, please follow the following instructions.

Step.1: Connect to the MongoDB server

mongo

Step.2: Go to the serverdb database

use serverdb;

Step.3: Find the user

db.User.find()

Output:

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5ea486690f09e71c2462385a"), "className" : "io.antmedia.rest.model.User", "email" : "[email protected]", "password" : "1234567", "userType" : "ADMIN" }

Step.4: You can delete or update the row

We updated our password as test123

db.User.updateOne( { email:"[email protected]" }, { $set: { "password" : "test123" }})

If you delete the user, you will create a new user next time you login on the dasboard.

db.User.deleteOne( { "email": "[email protected]" } )

If you are still having issues, please let us know that. [email protected]