QuickTime Streaming Server 4: How to Reset a Lost Password and Admin User Name

If you know your QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) Admin user name and password, you may reset it in the QTSS Web admin application. This document explains how to reset the name and password if you have lost or forgotten them.

This document applies to QuickTime Streaming Server 4 for Mac OS X Server 10.0.3 or later.

To reset the QTSS Admin user name and password:

  1. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
  2. Type: sudo qtpasswd user_name Note: Replace "user_name" with the name of your choice, here and in the steps below.
  3. Press Return.
  4. Enter your Mac OS X Admin user password when prompted.
  5. Press Return.
  6. Follow the prompts, entering the user name of the computer's Admin user, followed by a password that you want to assign to the user user_name.
  7. Using a text editor, modify the /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/qtgroups file so that the user name just created or modified is included in the group Admin, as follows:
  8. Save the file as ordinary text (not .pdf, .rtf, or any other file format).

 

Published Date: Feb 17, 2012