In the event that a user’s password is lost or forgotten, it may be reset using the -recoverAccount and -setPass command line parameters. In the following example, the password for the user “bob” is set to “ChangeMe123!!”

  ./c2-3.2.0_amd64_linux -hostname example.com -recoverAccount bob -setPass ChangeMe123!!
[*] Initializing Hak5 Cloud C2 v3.2.0
[*] Hostname: example.com
[*] DB Path: c2.db
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User Account Recovery Mode
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[+] bob's password successfully changed 
[*] Account Recovery Complete
[!] Server Restart without recovery arguments required
[!] Exiting

With account recovery complete, the server may now be started as usual without the additional recovery parameters.