is there a commandline to change the login username & password for the phpvirtualbox

[dov aharonson]

phpvirtualbox is installed with a default loging user name and password: admin & admin
Is it possible to use commanline to change it to some other username and password.
I know we can do it using the gui but I need to do it programatically.

[Ian Moore]

Yes you can do this using the CLI. Use VBoxManage getextradata and VBoxManage setextradata. E.g. to view the admin password:

VBoxManage getextradata global phpvb/users/admin/pass

There is no way to change a key. You'll have to delete it.

VBoxManage setextradata global phpvb/users/admin/admin
VBoxManage setextradata global phpvb/users/admin/pass

Then generate a password for the user using sha512 encryption. On a Mac you can do this with the sha command:

[ian@laptop : ~]> echo "secret" | shasum -a 512 eaa16b9ced0b5c6ece7aae07cb47c671e8c8f03bfe807f941809477a847337afc5e4335527dee93b083dfcf553042f69583067951ec812149b3fbeb98cb63891 -

I'm sure Linux has something similar if that's what you're using. Then set the password for your user:

VBoxManage setextradata global phpvb/users/myuser/pass eaa16b9ced0b5c6ece7aae07cb47c671e8c8f03bfe807f941809477a847337afc5e4335527dee93b083dfcf553042f69583067951ec812149b3fbeb98cb63891

Set the user as an admin:

VBoxManage setextradata global phpvb/users/myuser/admin 1

Let me know if you have any questions.

[klockren]

Bash always add the newline character, so you'll need to run

echo -n "secret" | shasum -a 512

instead.

Or, run PHP:

php -r "print hash('sha512','secret');"