qBittorrent login issue Topic is solved

[PANDUS]

issue fixed below

[MichaIng]

The config file did not exist? That is strange since it is explicitly created :

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/home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf

I'll retest a fresh install later, currently I can't see a reason why this fails, besides the mentioned Chromium login issue on Stretch systems.

qbittorrent-nox default
Note that this must be executed as user qbittorrent, which is what the service runs as, so:
sudo -u qbittorrent qbittorrent-nox default should be it, if the above file indeed was not created as expected.

[sneakers-the-rat]

Figured this out, in case anyone is still having issues here:

The systemd file is

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/etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent.service

which is, by default

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[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent (DietPi)
After=network.target

[Service]
User=qbittorrent
Group=dietpi
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox --webui-port=8080

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

So the service is run as qbittorrent user by default, so the relevant prefs file is in

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/home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent/

so just hit up a quick

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cp -r ~/.config/qBittorrent/ /home/qbittorrent/.config

[MichaIng]

Hey guys, I found the bug. We used useradd -p "$GLOBAL_PW" to create the user, but this takes the password not as "raw" but as encrypted. So when login fails, please do:

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chpasswd <<< 'qbittorrent:yourPassword'
echo -n 'yourPassword' | md5sum | mawk '{print $1}' # Copy this string (hashed password)
nano /home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf

Add the hashed password here:
WebUI\Password_ha1=@ByteArray(yourHashedPassword)

[PANDUS]

well... In my installation there was no configuration file, and the login didn't work.
So I've taken the following steps to make it work:

1.- Connect by SSH to your device.
2.- Execute:

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qbittorrent-nox default

The default user name and password will now appear, and the service will be running on port 8080. Access to your __IP__:8080, with the credentials that qbitorrent has indicated, login and change the password from the configuration.

Now you can kill the qbitorrent-nox service (Ctrl+C) and restart the device services:

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dietpi-services restart

Now you can access to the service with:

user: qbittorrent
passwd: __YOURPASSWORD__


I hope I've explained well....

Thanks! Just installed the latest today and this is still an issue, after reading all the other threads I found this suggestion. It was the only thing that worked to let me in though the webui. Much appreciated!

[lpuerto]

I've been fighting with this problem for a while now and finally yesterday after inspect the qBittorrent.conf on my home folder and the qBittorrent home folder i figure out that every time I restarted the service the password was resent to mygobalpassword

Damnit!

So for me the username was: qbittorrent
and the password: myglobalpassword

Now I can log in normally.