Forgot your password?

If an administrator other than the super-user forgets his password, the only remedy is for the super-user to:

1. Delete the administrator using the Delete an administrator command.

2. Re-create the administrator account using the Add an administrator command.

If the super-user forgets his password, things are a little more complicated. First you must login to the Manhattan server using the manhat shell account. Change to the manhat-x.x.x/users/admin directory:

cd manhat-x.x.x/users/admin

Next, rename the file named index.txt:

mv index.txt index.txt.orig

It doesn't matter what you call the renamed index.txt, the important thing is that there no longer is a file named manhat-x.x.x/users/admin/index.txt

Now you can repeat the process for creating a super-user account for this installation, as described in Creating the super-user account. If you followed our advice in that section and have deleted the super_conf program, you must recompile it from source. While logged in to manhat's shell account on the server:

cd ~/manhat-x.x.x/src
make super_conf
mv super_conf ../sbin

Be 100% certain you are renaming the correct index.txt file. The one you want to rename is in the users/admin directory of your installation. There's another index.txt file in the users directory, which you should not touch! This is an exceptional procedure to handle an exceptional accident - the super-user forgot his password. The procedure works, but you should never have to use it! You'll find that this procedure deletes all administrative accounts. The super-user will have to re-create them. Again, you should consider deleting the super_conf program from the sbin directory of your installation as soon as you are done re-creating the super-user account.