Change admin password in Gitea

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plaidshirt picture plaidshirt · Mar 1, 2018 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I created an admin user with a password, that contains a special character. Installation of Gitea was successful, but I can't login. I can't get new password, because it says:

Sorry, Register Mail Confirmation has been disabled.

I tried command gitea admin change-password, but command is not recognized.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Mar 4, 2018

From your issue, any gitea command (like gitea admin change-password --username myusername --password asecurenewpassword) ends up with:

gitea: command not found

If you installed from binary, you will note that the $PATH was not modified, and gitea was called directly from its installation folder.

./gitea web

So you can do the same for changing the password:

cd /path/to/gitea
./gitea admin change-password --username myusername --password asecurenewpassword

Note that Robert Ranjan adds in the comments:

/path/to/gitea is gitea's home path, where you find folder custom.
In my case gitea's home is /var/lib/gitea. From this path, you should see file: custom/conf/app.ini which is expected by default.

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