Jellyfin - resest admin password

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Few times a forgot admin password in Jellyfin. found simple way to reset this password.

  1. login to DietPi and stop Jellyfin by this command
    dietpi-services stop jellyfin
  2. Edit file /etc/jellyfin/system.xml
    nano /etc/jellyfin/system.xml
    Find this line in file (now it is 4th line).
<IsStartupWizardCompleted>true</IsStartupWizardCompleted>
  1. Change true to false
  2. Save file by pressing CTRL-S and then CTRL-X
  3. Start Jellyfin by this command.
    dietpi-services start jellyfin
  4. Open web browser with http://IP-ADRESS-OF-YOUR-DIETPI:8096/
  5. Create new ADMIN account.
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Many thanks for sharing.

Does this only allow to create a new additional admin account, or does it replace the old one as well?

Here are also instructions in case the user got locked: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/troubleshooting.html#unlock-locked-user-account

The reset password feature is another alternative, when configured.

And finally I guess it would be possible to apply a new password directly to the database as well. We’d just need to find out how it is hashed or encrypted there.

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I didn’t checked that I always created the same name account.

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Okay when its the same name, then obviously it overwrites the existing command :slight_smile:.

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Thank you so much very helpful

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for some reason I’m having to do this to trigger the Jellyfin startup wizard on a fresh 9.10 install

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just checked on a demo system and it was working without issues.

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This is a VPS install, I can get round it with using the fqdn instead of IP address.

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Hi!
The main task to resolve problem to acces file was to find in your system this file “system.xml”. I have Raspbian lite 64 bit OS and connected it by using WinSCP. This file was located in my case here /path/to/jellyfin/library. I used find file like this

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I’m going to close the topic as the initial post is from 2021