If you simply want to reset your ruTorrent password, please contact support to get your password regenerated. If you want to set a custom password for your ruTorrent webui, you will need to SSH to your seedbox, and make changes to the .htpasswd file, using the htpasswd program. You cannot just edit the .htpasswd file directly, because it stores the passwords hashed for security.

To use htpasswd, you need to execute the following command in the shell, after navigating to the folder where the file lives:

 htpasswd -b .htpasswd yourusername newpassword 

*Remember to substitute the 'username' with your actual username and 'newpassword' with the actual password you want to use.*

If you get the following error, it means that the location of your .htpasswd file is not where you specified:

 htpasswd: cannot modify file /home/flatlinebb/.htpasswd; use '-c' to create it

It is probably in your ~/private folder, instead of your ~/ (or 'home') folder, or in the rutorrent folder. Please adjust the command line accordingly:

 htpasswd -b ~/private/.htpasswd yourusername newpassword

You can get more info about the htpasswd command by typing htpasswd without any options. It will then display the options and switches you can use.

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