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Where is Directadmin admin password and MySQL password?

The installation of DirectAdmin is automated and you don’t get to do much customizations at the time of setting it up.

Original content from computingforgeeks.com - post 14067

As a security best practice you should store Directadmin admin password and MySQL root user password in a secure location not easy to locate text files. If you already lost the login credentials, use the following procedure to locate them.

Login to Directadmin server.

ssh root@ServerIP

Check the contents of /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt file.

$ cat /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt
adminname=admin
adminpass=dfXdgMk8y9DOBk2G5A
[email protected]
hostname=osting.example.com
ip=192.168.1.34
ns1=ns1.hosting.example.com
ns2=ns2.hosting.example.com
mysql=jw6cWtOLnn7

You can also use:

cat /usr/local/directadmin/conf/setup.txt

For MySQL, root user password is also available on:

cat /usr/local/directadmin/conf/my.cnf
cat /usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf

To login to DirectAdmin Web Control Panel access it on https://ServerIP:2222.

directadmin login

For MySQL login to its console using:

$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 385
Server version: 10.6.16-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

You can try query some database parameters as test.

MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_buffer_pool_size';
+-------------------------+------------+
| Variable_name           | Value      |
+-------------------------+------------+
| innodb_buffer_pool_size | 2147483648 |
+-------------------------+------------+
1 row in set (0.001 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT @@innodb_buffer_pool_size;
+---------------------------+
| @@innodb_buffer_pool_size |
+---------------------------+
|                2147483648 |
+---------------------------+
1 row in set (0.001 sec)

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