admin panel - authentication failed

[perler]

@perler ok, selfhelp at it's best:

I had some misconceptions. First, to add a domain you need to login with user "admin" not with a cloudron user/email who is an admin.

But, this didn't work with the default password "12345" as described in the documentation, I had to add the line

admin_password = "12345"

to the [security] section of application.ini, making it looking like this:

you should choose your own password and disable the admin access when done obviously.

thanks to listening to my ted talk.

(how can I change this topic to "solved"?)

[girish]

@perler rainloop (upstream) is not actively maintained, snappymail is the maintained fork.

[perler]

@girish thanks, good to know (maybe put it prominently into the rainloop installer..)

but.. having switched to snappymail I can't get into the ../?admin area, whatever I try.

• I tried with admin/12345
• I added admin_password = "12345"
• I added a cloudron admin as an operator and tried to login as such

what am I doing wrong here?

[perler]

@perler ok, snappymail does things different and you document this here: https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/snappymail/

but the applications.ini looks different and holds something that looks like a password hash to me:

anyways, I just don't get into the admin panel in snappymail.

[necrevistonnezr]

@perler As mentioned in the docu: Don't use the admin password in /app/data/_data_/_default_/configs/application.ini but in /app/data/_data_/_default_/admin_password.txt! Works fine for me. Also, don't forget to restart the App in between.

Step by step:

• To enable it, open a File manager and edit the file /app/data/_data_/_default_/configs/application.ini. Set the value of allow_admin_panel to On.
• restart app
• You can now login with the username admin. The password is located at /app/data/_data_/_default_/admin_password.txt.

[perler]

@necrevistonnezr ok, restarting the app was new to me, but so I did. no success.

I have the feeling something is messed up here. whe having /app/data/data/default/admin_password.txt

AND the

admin_password =

line in application.ini? which one is it? I followed the documentation to the letter, multiple times and tried some combinations of passwords in admin_password.txt and/or/not in application.ini - no dice.

@support ?

[jdaviescoates]

@perler said in admin panel - authentication failed:

which one is it?

Both. You turn it on in one, set what it is in the other as per:

@necrevistonnezr said in admin panel - authentication failed:

To enable it, open a File manager and edit the file /app/data/data/default/configs/application.ini. Set the value of allow_admin_panel to On.
restart app
You can now login with the username admin. The password is located at /app/data/data/default/admin_password.txt.

[perler]

that's not my point. there is a line

admin_password =

(not allow_admin_panel = ) AND the file admin_password.txt which seems redundant.

I will open a thread in the snappymail categorie, thanks @jdaviescoates

[jdaviescoates]

@perler said in admin panel - authentication failed:

that's not my point. there is a line
admin_password =
(not allow_admin_panel = ) AND the file admin_password.txt which seems redundant.
I will open a thread in the snappymail categorie, thanks @jdaviescoates

I see what you mean.

But on a new install I don't have any admin_password =

But nor do I have any admin_password.txt file to edit!

Ah, I think that file gets created on the restarted after enabling allow_admin_panel = On

I had manually created and written a pw just before the restart, but that didn't work because the restart generated the pw and inserted it into that file.

But now I'm in:

[necrevistonnezr]

@perler said in admin panel - authentication failed:

@necrevistonnezr ok, restarting the app was new to me, but so I did. no success.

I have the feeling something is messed up here. whe having /app/data/data/default/admin_password.txt

AND the

admin_password =

line in application.ini? which one is it? I followed the documentation to the letter, multiple times and tried some combinations of passwords in admin_password.txt and/or/not in application.ini - no dice.

@support ?

I would say, documentation is pretty clear:

The password is located at /app/data/data/default/admin_password.txt.

It's quite possible it is necessary to have this in a separate file due to Cloudron specifics (read only file system etc.) but it is what it is.

[girish]

@necrevistonnezr said in admin panel - authentication failed:

It's quite possible it is necessary to have this in a separate file due to Cloudron specifics (read only file system etc.) but it is what it is.

This comes from the upstream project - https://snappymail.eu/install.html . The author changed how admin login works (for security reasons).

[jdaviescoates]

The solution is here:

https://forum.cloudron.io/post/51750

@staff ought to update the docs to make it clearer

1. after enabling the admin panel you have to visit /?admin in order for the admin_password.txt file to be created

2. the admin username is admin