I logged out of my HA Green, and for some reason the credentials are not working. The docs say to connect a monitor. I have an all-in-one PC, and a Dell laptop. I tried connecting the HDMI port of the laptop to the HDMI port of the HA Green, but get nothing. Short of buying a monitor, any suggestions how to get this working?
The monitor might have to be connected before the green is booted. You could also try to set up developer SSH access.
I’m fairly certain the HTMI signal from the laptop is output only. But I tried rebooting the green which did not work. I’m unable to install SSH or anything since I can’t login. I should have enabled SSH already. But without the admin credentials working, not sure what good that would do.
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Please read the link again. You do not need the GUI for that. You prepare a USB stick on your own PC.
Oh! I was thinking that the SSH add-on would not work with the admin (root) login. Not using the SSH add-on though!
One question it indicates to use a “partition” named “CONFIG”. Is that an actual disk partition? Or is the USB drive formatted with a volume named CONFIG? Or is this simply a folder named CONFIG? Just making sure!
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Okay, I ssh’d into the HA and I’m at a # prompt. But if I type id admin, or cat the /etc/passwd file, I don’t see an admin user. Or a user named bernie that I created during the initial green setup. I tried the instructions here using the auth command which did not work:
I forgot the owner password for the Home Assistant Green. How can I reset it? – Nabu Casa
auth reset --username ‘existing_user’ --password ‘new_password’
-sh: auth: not found
Can you tell me how to create or modify a user so I can then login using the GUI?
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Try ha auth ... as shown in the gif from the article you linked. The leading ha can only be omitted in the HA CLI, not the OS’.
Thank you I finally got it after I figured out how to use ha auth to list the users as well.