Xenforo Reset All Passwords for Security Tutorial

This tutorial is based on a CMM + Xenforo installation but will apply to a basic CMM install as well. This tutorial is a rough guide on what passwords you need to update if you have the need to do so.

The reason I put this together is, I made a video tutorial which shows all the credentials for my tutorial server. I will continue to make tutorials, so instead of nuking the entire server I just changed all the credentials.

This doesn't apply to every installation, use this as a guide not a verbatim solution.

1) Change SSH keys
Open /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and replace your old keys with your new ones

more info: How-to Add SSH Keys to New or Existing Droplets :: DigitalOcean Product Documentation

2) Change FTP passwords:

Code:

pure-pw passwd FTPUSERNAME
pure-pw mkdb

more info: Pure-FTPD Virtual FTP Users - CentminMod.com LEMP Nginx web stack for CentOS

3) Change all htpasswd passwords for all password protected directories.

If you have a basic setup you will have your main htpasswd file, opcache password and maybe a phpmyadmin
I just overwrote them all using

Code:

/usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd USERNAME PASSWORD
/usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpassphpmyadmin USERNAME PASSWORD
/usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd_opcache USERNAME PASSWORD

Open your /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/ folder and look through all the config files, to find other credentials you might need to update

Code:

grep -r "auth_basic_user_file" /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/

Then for your default vhost you will have php files which have embedded credentials, which you will need to change:

Code:

grep -r "ADMIN_PASSWORD" /usr/local/nginx/html/

3) Change your mysql passwords

Code:

/root/tools/mysqladmin_shell.sh setpass

more info: mysqladmin_shell.sh Shell based Addon

Update the MySQL password in your webapps, for Xenforo edit public/src/config.php

4) Change the Xenforo passwords for all admins and moderator accounts via the admin control panel

5) If you send email from your web server, change email passwords as well

6) Go through your password manager and see if there is anything else you need to change

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I'm pretty sure that's it, anything else to add?

 

I referenced your script and I had got everything, thanks

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