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User profile for user: hdittmer
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Server admin is unable to login to server.app after upgrade to Mountain Lion Server?

After upgrade to Mountain Lion Server I am unable to login to the server tools. When I input the admin user name and password the dialog box just shakes indicating the wrong password. But it is the correct password. How do I reset the password or if necessary how do I rest the server and start over on Mountain Lion. I found info on how to reset the server on previous versions of the server which involved executing a plist in the LaunchDaemon folder. However that file does not exist on the server following upgrade to Mountain Lion.


Thanks, Howard

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 12:29 PM

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User profile for user: fbroadking
fbroadking
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Sep 11, 2012 10:01 PM in response to hdittmer

I upgraded today and had the same issue. I took following steps to fix my computer.


Boot into Recovery Partition (Hold Option Button while booting)

Open Terminal.

Type resetpassword

Select your hard drive

Select the user account (Administrator)

Enter a new password for the user

Reenter password

Save

Restart

Boot normally, Login as Adminstrator with the new password and add "Admin" permission to your account.

Restart


Everything should be working as expected 🙂

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Server admin is unable to login to server.app after upgrade to Mountain Lion Server?

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