Add admin password?

I installed yacy abotu 2 months ago, then when rebooting the server, yacy stoppe working altogether. It would not run any more.

That’s fine, right? So, I created a new server for yacy to run on. I installed it. It runs fine.

It worked form the same server, I opened port 8090, and it truns.

I tried running from my PC to use it.

It needs a password.

I do nto have one. I use the passwd.sh script to TRY and make one.

It ask for new PW, I enter it.
It asks for host admin PW, I have no idea what this is? I entered the server log in password(Linux MINT has no admin user) for yacy server.
It failed.

I go back to the yacy server, and for anything I want to do, it now needs a password.

How do I set a password? There needs to be a way to do this for the local host interface. The passwd script does not work.

What is the default password?

start yacy up then go to
http://localhost:8090/Status.html?noforward=

look on right hand side of page find this Protection

password-protected [Configure]
click config

Try you, In the file yacy.conf, write: adminAccountForLocalhost=true instead adminAccountForLocalhost=false, and go in the localhost.

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