How to recover password?

[Sciamano72]

I deleted the default admin user and created my own.
I logged in, everything was fine. A few days passed, I'm now trying to login again but it says I'm entering the wrong password (although I'm sure I'm not!)
Is there any way to recover/change the password? Or am I now locked out forever?
Thanks

[bpatrik]

You can delete the db and start over with the default admin admin pass. Technically you should be also able to restart the app with custom enforced user setting but deleting the db is easier

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[Sciamano72]

This is pretty annoying, considering the system needed more than 3 full days to index everything :(
Isn't there any other way to only delete the user and save the database?
Thanks

[bpatrik]

not really. you can manually delete all users from the db with an external app.

3 days sounds a bit long to me. To you have a lot of HEIC files or slow disk?

[Sciamano72]

I have around 130.000 pictures hosted on a NAS. They're not hosted on the same server as piGallery2 so I guess this slows down the procedure a lot.

[bpatrik]

Yeah 130 k is not that many photos, but the app is not optimized for low latency storage. An SQL editor is one of the easiest to delete the user and relog with the default admin admin. Or check the manpage on the GitHub repo and look for enforced user.

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[Sciamano72]

Thanks, I'll try to delete the user first... but where is the database located? I'm using the Docker Compose version of piGallery2
Thanks

[bpatrik]

Itt depends how you set that up. It can be on a docker volume or a folder that you set up. I would assume it's docker volume. Please read about docker on their page.

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[Sciamano72]

Ok, thanks

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