Resetting the Gitorious user password

This tip was written by Diogo Baeder

(Taken from http://howlingwolf.de/blog/2011/07/recover-lost-gitorious-password/)

You’ve setup your own Gitorious and lost your password? No, problem!

SSH your way to your box and change into the gitorious-directory (mine is /var/www/gitorious)

Fire up the console

# env RAILS_ENV=production ruby script/console

on sudo-systems (like Ubuntu)

$ sudo env RAILS_ENV=production ruby script/console

and then type in the following commands:

    @user = User.find_by_login("yourusername")

    @user.password = "yournewpassword"

    @user.password_confirmation = "yournewpassword"

    @user.save

The final output should be “true” and you’ll be able to login into the account with your brand new password. Yay!