{"id":628,"date":"2012-03-23T18:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:38:33","slug":"how-i-fixed-my-napp-it-operator-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"How I fixed my napp-it operator password"},"content":{"rendered":"I recently tried to log into a filer using napp-it where I forgot the operator password. To fix it, I reset the value_operatorpw password field at line 9 in <code>napp-it.cfg<\/code> to an empty value, like this:\n<!--more-->\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>select_allmenues|no|\nselect_defuser|admin|\nselect_editable|yes|\nselect_info|no|\nselect_lang|en|\nselect_os|auto|\nvalue_adminpw|!U2pfRaGPFUh.!UIetruNm9aeI!UFuphdA0AQLQ|\nvalue_host||\nvalue_operatorpw||\nvalue_smtp-from||\nvalue_smtp-pw||\nvalue_smtp-to||\nvalue_smtp-user||\nvalue_smtp||<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\nI then re-logged into napp-it using http:\/\/file-server:81 and reset it.\n\nThis time I wrote it down.\n\nThe napp-it administrative tools were in:\n<ul>\n\t<li><code>\/var\/web-gui\/wwwroot\/cgi-bin\/napp-it\/admin.pl<\/code><\/li>\n\t<li><code>\/var\/web-gui\/wwwroot\/cgi-bin\/napp-it\/admin-lib.pl<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI started there and worked my way through the scripts to figure out where things were.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tried to log into a filer using napp-it where I forgot the operator password. To fix it, I reset the value_operatorpw password field at line 9 in napp-it.cfg to an empty value, like this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelinoff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}