Default Credentials (Passwords) for NMIS9 VM
Open-AudIT Default Credentials
If you are looking for default credentials for Open-AudIT, you can find them at Information about default users and passwords
Default Credentials for NMIS9 VMs'
Shell/Console Access, SSH
Please note: this is for logging in to the virtual appliance interactively, i.e. on your VM console or via SSH. This is not the password for the Web GUI!
Console and SSH access: User
omkadminpasswordNM1588(Before 15 June 2026:NM1$88)The VM has been configured with the Linux best practice of not allowing direct access to root. Once you have authenticated as
omkadminyou can elevate your privileges usingsudoorsu.
NMIS Web Users
These are the passwords for the NMIS Web GUI, which won't work for the VM console or SSH.
nmis/nm1888
admin/password
Changing the Credentials
Console/System
To change the Console passwords, either login as the user in question and run the passwd command, or login as (or become) the root and run passwd otheruser.
# to change the current user's password (which you might want to check by running "id" first)
passwd
# to change the nmis user password, if you're the superuser
passwd nmisWeb
If you have not changed the NMIS Authentication configuration, it will be using the default method which are users defined in a file managed with htpasswd.
In all FirstWave VM Appliance releases since 2015 the htpasswd file is shared between NMIS and the NMIS Enterprise applications (except Open-AudIT Community).
The default installation location for NMIS is /usr/local/nmis9 (it may be installed somewhere else, adjust the commands accordingly).
To update the password for web user SOMEUSER, run the following commands as user nmis or root:
cd /usr/local/nmis9/conf
# use apache-specific md5 for hashing
htpasswd -m users.dat SOMEUSER
Further info regarding authentication and user management can be found on the User Management in NMIS page.