Password lost

Configuration
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How to change the lost password?

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I had no new onboarding flow during the first start. System asked for the user and password, which I used testing auth in pervious versions, but I lost both.

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Not sure if this works in 0.77.
Rename your config/.storage folder to .storage.bak and restart HA.
Clean the cache of your browser.

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I’m have HA on MAC and can’t locate such folder.

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Should be in the same folder where your configuration.yaml lives.
With the point at the beginning the folder is hidden.
Don’t know how to show hidden files/folders on mac.

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Greta it’s work .
Thank you a lot

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I made a few tests with hass.io 0.76.2 and 0.77.0b4

You have to:

  • Stop HA (Services -> homeassistant.stop)
  • Rename or delete the .storage folder
  • Clean your browser cache and close it, also delete some cookies you have from HA.
  • Start HA, you’ll get the Login to create an user account
  • Login with that user

I had to restart the browser and login three times to get the “Save login” popup. (Firefox)

Maybe helps others.

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It works, thanks a lot.

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A better way to do this is to

  • remove .storage/auth*
  • remove .storage/onboarding

There is no need to delete the entity registry and other configurations.

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See also the documentation.

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Where is this .storage located? I could not find in in Windows explorer.

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config/.storage is a hidden folder. You will have to enable “Show hidden folders” in folder options.

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I just came across this problem with my setup, forgot my password.
There are a couple of ways to reset your password without needing to recreate your user.
First way:

  1. Log in using the legacy password. (set in configuration.yaml)
  2. Create a new temporary user.
  3. Shutdown HA and edit auth_provider.homeassistant in /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/.storage (on debian hassio), copying the test user’s password to your own.
  4. Startup HA and log in.
  5. Delete the temp user.

Second way (suggested by u/sweharris on Reddit)

  1. Log into HA system using ssh
  2. Enter HA environment. (I do this with ‘docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash’)
  3. Start python.
  4. Enter the following.
    import bcrypt
    import base64
    password=“hello”
    hashed = bcrypt.hashpw(password.encode(), bcrypt.gensalt(rounds=12))
    hashed = base64.b64encode(hashed)
    print(hashed)
  5. Shut down HA
  6. Replace your password in auth_provider.homeassistant with the password you got from python. (you want the part between the single quotes)
  7. Start HA and log in.

I used the first method to get my ID back and I tried the second on a test ID to see if it would work. (it does!)

Hope this helps anyone else having a lost password issue.

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[skywise], this is genius! thank

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Third way:

1. login to the homeassistant docker or console
2. hass --script auth -c /config change_password <user> <password>
3. Restart HA

You can use “hass --script auth -c /config list” command to list the users

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Thank you. It’s a tragedy this is not in the documentation (as usual).

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It IS in the documentation, as I linked to. Also, if you don’t like the docs, feel free to add/edit/fix. It’s all open source.

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Saved my life. Thank you

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It worked and all my previous configurations remained the same. Thanks!