How to change the admin password?

[buhtigpater]

Hello, everyone

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place with my question. I'm running Baikal in a Docker container. Now I want to change the admin password? How do I do that?

Thanks for helping me and others

[ckulka]

Hi @buhtigpater, a better place would be over at sabre-io/Baikal since this is a question about how to do something in Baikal, not something related to the Docker images.

I found this here though in their issues: sabre-io/Baikal#196 (comment)

[buhtigpater]

Good evening ckulka

Thanks for your prompt response. Sadly it did not work. Regardless, I'll rebuild the server and then just populate the db.sqlite.

Thank you also for the container, you've already helped me a lot. - Keep it up!

[buhtigpater]

got it!

1. backup the existing config file

   cd /var/www/baikal/config
   cp -p baikal.yaml baikal.yaml_keep

2. generate a new password hash

   echo -n 'admin:BaikalDAV:MyNewTopSecretPassword' | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1`
   # new password hash: c06c5eedc0950a347fdffc7270605db834a4d57ece3cf88bb2924723f1edc900

3. get old password hash

   grep admin_passwordhash baikal.yaml
   # admin_passwordhash: 41739d5e231d38110d4c5e8c33dd5b4d4f11246d8d02aafa78ce599455e15b0f

4. replace old hash with new hash

   sed 's/old password hash/new password hash/' baikal.yaml.keep > baikal.yaml`

[ckulka]

Thanks! I've updated the formatting and marked it as the answer for others who come across this in the future