how to reset the admin password?

[RNDpacman]

I changed the password via web panel then I logged out (I did not find something like unlogin and just opened the page in another tab) logged in, the new password was not accepted and I concluded that the password has not changed, but today I tried to log in again and already with the old password does not let me in, it still applied. Question how to reset the administrator password?

[bevenhall]

Same issue for me, solved it with using the admin.secret in the first line in config.toml.

[RNDpacman]

Don't work:
admin.secret = "my_passwd"

[bevenhall]

Probably easiest to reinstall, assuming you haven't spent to much time optimizing.

[jayknyn]

Yes, there is no logout functionality right now in the UI; I'm sure it's coming. After you changed the password, it probably applied the change to your config.toml but your login session in the browser was still active with your old password. So just opening a new tab will not log you out or reset your login session. You would have to clear your cookies for the admin ui. Then you would be able to log in with the new password after changing it in the UI.

If you want to set your new password in the config.toml, you will have to hash your password and only enter the hashed password in the config.toml, not the plain text password.

From this part in the docs (creating user accounts in SQL DBs), you can use this command from a terminal to hash a password using the SHA512 algorithm:

$ openssl passwd -6

For example: for the password stalwart-is-awesome, the hash of it is:

$6$qFSOEjbzqoWzMt8b$E90pnTW1SwV1jqtX7IdbBllkiPuKejdJEFqYuBP9L3pwMthaLJ16owVsYePy.z5iOZ7djOTFGqOfNlwkTleYb0

[RNDpacman]

I'm using internal database rockDB. Not mysql

[jayknyn]

That's fine that you're using RocksDB. That command to generate a password hash just comes from the SQL documentation.

Can you share your full config.toml? Of course, redact all the secrets and private information.

[RNDpacman]

I tried all day yesterday to open rocksdb database in some viewer. But I couldn't find anything suitable. Then I tried to open the database through python module, but there were also errors and I failed.
If you can advise me how to open and modify rocksdb (if I understood correctly, the password hash is in it) it would be great. Otherwise it seems to me that it is easier to use sql database because it is very easy to maintain.

[RNDpacman]

I solved the problem by adding these lines to the config:

authentication.fallback-admin.user = "admin_fallback"
authentication.fallback-admin.secret = "$6$MM1wz ..."

Then I logged in under that user and create a new user admin with superuser rights, because the web-panel and cli account list didn't show the built-in admin user so I could just change his password. I don't know if I actually created a new user or if it overlapped with the built-in account admin. In the end, I log in as admin which has superuser privileges and I seem to have all the privileges that were available through the built-in admin account. But in general it's strange, I remember exactly that in version 0.6.0 the built-in admin was displayed via cli.

[wayneoutthere]

If it's helpful, I made this detailed tutorial after I went through this to maybe help someone else in the same boat.

LINK TO TUTORIAL