Are you looking for how to reset the admin password in OpenVAS?

We can help you to do it. Usually, the command to change the admin password depends on the OpenVAS version.

At Bobcares, we often get requests to manage OpenVAS, as a part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s see how our Support Engineers reset the OpenVAS admin password.

Explore more about OpenVAS

OpenVAS aka Open Vulnerability Assessment System is one of the best tools to protect your server.

It mainly involves package management and vulnerability scanning. Basically, OpenVAS is a framework that integrates services and tools to protect the server.

One of the most prominent features of OpenVAS is Greenbone Security Assistant. This graphical interface helps us to manage vulnerability scans from a web application.

In addition, in the Greenbone Security Assistant, the user can log in using a default username and password. And the login page of a Greenbone Security Assistant appears as,

The initial generation of OpenVAS admin password

Usually, the generation of the admin password is at the initial setup.

We can also setup OpenVAS automatically using the command openvas-setup. This reduces the error that otherwise come up during manual setup.

In addition, the automatic setup creates the admin user. And displays the password at the end. But many users miss to save it. Hence users feel the need to reset the admin password.

So, let’s see how our Support Engineers do this.

How to reset the admin password in OpenVAS?

Customers often approach us to reset the admin password in OpenVAS. The commands to reset password vary according to the version of the Openvas program.

For OpenVAS9

In OpenVAS 9, our Support Engineers do this using the command,

openvasmd --user=admin --new-password=<new password>

This reset the admin password to the newly entered password. But on any system, only a root user can do such changes.

Similarly, we can also create a new admin user. For this, we use the command,

openvasmd --create-user bob --password=bob@123

This command generates a new admin user with our desired password.

Later, we can log in using this credential and change the password as required.

In latest OpenVAS

For latest GVM 10 and newer, the command to reset password is

gvmd --user=admin --new-password=new_password

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Conclusion

So far we saw how to reset the admin password in OpenVAS. Usually, we do this using the opanvasmd command to reset the password. Today, we saw how our Support Engineers do this without fail.