Lost / forgot username and or password for web gui

Installation Home Assistant OS
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As per title, so I connected a monitor and keyboard to my Pi3b and logged in to a ha prompt using root at the login prompt.

From the ha prompt is there anyway I can see or recover my log in details in HA.
Thanks

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Try this:

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Thanks, when doing it at an ha prompt it fails at
docker exec -it ha bash to open to the container command line

After entering the cmd , it takes me to a listing on how to use docker.
Also throws an error while executing rootCmd: unknown shorthand flag: ā€˜-iā€™ in -it

Then I entered ā€˜loginā€™ at the ha prompt and this time after entering the first line, it returns, ā€˜no such container haā€™ and also ā€˜docker.execā€™ requires at least 2 arguements.

So what am I doing wrong

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You seem to be running the Home Assistant OS, so the docker/container section of the documentation is not relevant.
Have you tried this?

To reset a userā€™s password, via console

If you know the username, but not the password and you can access the Home Assistant console and use the command below:

Connect a keyboard and monitor to your device.

auth reset --username existing_user --password new_password

If you donā€™t know the username, try this:

  1. type login at the ha > prompt
  2. cd to your config directory (where configuration.yaml is located)
  3. grep username .storage/auth
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Thanks, but what I did was to rename the /.storage folder to /.storagebak, then loaded up HA, which created another /.storage folder. I then connected my esp device to my computer with the connected addons and they were showing up in HAā€™s web gui.
That took me about 10 minutes tops.

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Thanks for this. This is a real solution with not that many words. I really appreciate that.

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Thanks! Worked for me.

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I think the location of this config file is critical information.

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I donā€™t run Home Assistant OS myself (I use Container), so I wasnā€™t sure where it keeps its configuration.

This should find it, but it might take a while:

find / -name configuration.yaml

Feel free to post where you found it on your system.

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itā€™s in /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant

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For anyone who is trying to get their head around HAOS check the following link. It might be a useful short reference for what you are looking for, and it is enhanced over time based on feedback.

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Just want to say thanks. I followed these directions and they worked flawlessly.

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Hiā€¦ I know its an old postā€¦ but Iā€™ve just encountered the same problem and have hit a wall here.
Iā€™m locked out of HA, and donā€™t have the API saved anywhere, so trying to reset my password with this method. I get, Unknown error, see supervisor.
Any idea what could be the cause or what I could try?

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Uncertain what you problem is, but wild guess the following might assist:

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Yeah I just discovered this today this seems like a very stupid thing to implement had I known I would have this issue I would of saved it. What if you just delete the mtqq addon and start over?

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This was much easier following the written FAQ than reading this thread. Here is all I had to do: type ā€œauth listā€ on the terminal CLI.

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