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

Solution Verified - Updated 9 Sept 2026

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

Note: If the username parameter is omitted, the command defaults to the admin user. This will either reset the password for the existing admin account or create the default admin user if it does not already exist.
To reset the password for a specific user, provide the username parameter explicitly:
```
# foreman-rake permissions:reset username=NewUserName 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

SBR

SysMgmt

Product(s)

Red Hat Satellite

Components

foreman

Category

Configure

Tags

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