Reset the admin user's password
If your Portainer admin forgets their password, follow these steps to reset it. There are two methods depending on your Portainer environment.
Method 1: Resetting the admin password if Portainer runs as a container
You would typically use this method if you run the Portainer Server on Docker Standalone.
First, go to our reset password container helper in GitHub, then stop the Portainer container by running this command:
Next, run the helper using the following command (you'll need to mount the Portainer data volume):
If successful, the output should look like this:
Finally, use this command to start the Portainer container then try logging in with the new password:
Method 2: Resetting the admin password if Portainer runs as a stack/service
You would typically use this method if you run the Portainer Server on Docker Swarm.
First, scale the Portainer service to zero using this command:
Next, run the reset password container helper using the same bind-mount/volume as the data volume:
If successful, the output should look like this:
Finally, start up the Portainer service scaling using this command then try logging in with the new password:
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