Deleted my User file now locked out

Installation
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Hi folks forgive me as this is day one with HA for me on an Odroid… It came with HA pre-installed.
I set up a few things from the initial wizard but then when I thought I was deleted my Home Map zone I think I have deleted myself as the only admin user.
And now can’t get past the HA username/password screen.
I have not added any devices yet so happy to do a ‘Factory Reset’ - what is the simplest way to do this?
I have plugged in a keyboard / HDMI screen into Odroid but still can’t get past the login.
Any help greatly appreciated as I get my head around a new OS!!
cheers, Jon

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Why did you do that?? You may need to reimage the caes and restore your data from your off-card backup.

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Where does that ask you for login? I’d expect it to show you a command line interface with a prompt like this: ha >.

There’s some general advice here:

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Hi Ondra thanks for your reply - I used root as login and can now see the ha command line interface…
Can you tell me what I enter to delete the config file to force a ‘factory reset’ new onboarding process?
thanks

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Hi Prodigyplace - no idea why I did it! Was only a few minutes into HA and clicked the wrong thing…
I have now accessed the command line interface so is there a line of ha code that will force a reset back to as if new?
Thanks

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I guess this should work:

ha core stop
login
cd /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/.storage
rm auth auth_provider.homeassistant onboarding hassio cloud
exit
ha core start
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Thanks Ondra - I entered the code and it all looked good.
It brought up the onboarding screen but then after entering new user / pw details it would not advance when the ‘Create Account’ button was clicked…
Any thoughts on next step?
Thanks again, Jon

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Interestingly on the iOS app is still sees the name of the old ha server.
When I did the code you gave me it said it could not delete cloud as it did not exist so perhaps it didn’t delete everything?

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It wasn’t really supposed to delete everything, it should have just started a new onboarding process.

I’ve fired up a VM (virtual machine) to verify that this won’t break your system even more, but it seems to be OK - Home Assistant should recreate the files. To delete everything:

ha core stop
login
cd /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/
# Don't forget to run the cd command above first!
# This command deletes all files in current working directory.
# This will probably say "can't remove '.' or '..'", that's normal
rm -rf ./* ./.*
exit
ha core start
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Thanks Ondra for your help. That helped and all back on track now. Cheers

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Hi ondras can you please give me some advice?
I accidently run this command rm -rf ./* ./.* without switching into the cd /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/ directory.
Is it possible to undo it somehow? It wont even start up :frowning:

I have this: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-n2-plus?ref=eeb6nfw07e

Thanks

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You seem to have deleted all files on your system :frowning:
(I have edited my previous post to clarify that it’s crucial to run the cd command first, to hopefully prevent this from happening again.)
You’ll need to reinstall the OS

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On the plus side - every single one of us who have ever made this mistake, will never make it again!

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