How to change admin password through CLI on Red Hat Satellite 6?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x

Issue

• How to change Satellite admin password through command line?

• Below foreman-rake command can be used to reset the password but that create a random password, is there a way to set the password to specific one ?

  # foreman-rake permissions:reset
  

Resolution

• The rake script allows setting password as well, via:

  # foreman-rake permissions:reset password=NewPassword
  

• Optionally, one can use hammer for the same. First get the admin user ID from below command

  # hammer user list
  

• Then, change the password with below command:

  # hammer user update --password <new-password> --id <admin-ID>
  

• Note:- If the same admin user credentials is used by hammer, then update the ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml file as well.

  #  vi ~/.hammer/cli.modules.d/foreman.yml                     << Enter/Update the latest credentials in file.
  

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Authentication Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Authentication Issues

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