Where do I add an admin user to phpVirtualBox? File -> Preferences -> Users is absent, but he user looks to be admin.

[Valerii Vainkop]

Hi everyone! :)

I manage my VirtualBox 5 server with phpVirtualBox.

I have 1 admin(?) user there, with name different from "admin".

I need to add another one. How do I do that, except for on the phpVirtualBox page itself?

The problem is, that File -> Preferences -> Users menu is absent :( so I'm really not sure the user IS admin
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/wiki/Authentication%20in%20phpVirtualBox/#configuring-users

It's all running on a CentOS 6 host, so is there a config file or smth which I can edit & add an admin user there?

Looks like we have multiple server configuration enabled, as I can switch between several servers.

And there is no recovery.php-disabled file on one of the servers at least, so I can't rename it to recovery.php to reset admin password :(

UPDATE: on one of the hosts I found "recovery.php-disabled" file, but when I renamed it to recovery.php and went to http://servername/phpvirtualbox/recovery.php I saw the Admin Account Recovery page, but when I click on "Recover" I get an exception :(
Any ideas?

Exception Object
(
    [message:protected] => Could not connect to host (http://localhost:18083/)
    [string:Exception:private] => 
    [code:protected] => 64
    [file:protected] => /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox-5.0-5/endpoints/lib/vboxconnector.php
    [line:protected] => 220
    [trace:Exception:private] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [file] => /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox-5.0-5/recovery.php
                    [line] => 39
                    [function] => connect
                    [class] => vboxconnector
                    [type] => ->
                    [args] => Array
                        (
                        )

                )

        )

    [previous:Exception:private] => 
)

Thanks!

Best regards,
Val

[Valerii Vainkop]

Somehow I've managed to reset admin account according to https://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/wiki/Authentication%20in%20phpVirtualBox/#configuring-users
which didn't work for me a couple of days ago 0_0
Guess I was better focused today :)