Useful information about vault files

[MikeiLL]

and access recovery.

[tangrufus]

Questions about "Access Recovery":

• Does $ sudo passwd admin work if I don't have the sudo password?
• Does UPDATE mysql.user ..... work if I don't have the MySQL root password?

Or, a better question - is there anyway to find those 2 passwords on the server?

[MikeiLL]

That is a great question. In a DO droplet you can reset the root password via the web interface. My guess is that strong passwords cannot be recovered on a unix system, by design. If these contributions to the docs make sense, maybe they also need to mention that a reset of the root password might be necessary.

[tangrufus]

It would be nice to mention the DigitalOcean feature and (maybe) links to tutorials about how to restore EC2 from snapshots.

It's worth mentioning that we can use $ wp db export and $ wp db import to move the db on to new servers. And, some rsync examples to move media files.

But we leave them in another PR.

[MikeiLL]

It would be nice to mention the DigitalOcean feature and (maybe) links to tutorials about how to restore EC2 from snapshots.

I like that idea. Is EC2 Amazon's answer to DO droplets?

It's worth mentioning that we can use $ wp db export and $ wp db import to move the db on to new servers. And, some rsync examples to move media files.

Yes. There is some banter about adding rsync to trellis-cli as well.

[swalkinshaw]

Agreed this is useful 👍 thanks