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title = "MissKey: Resetting Admin Password"
publishDate = 2023-08-11T00:00:00+02:00
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So recently I had the need to reset the admin password in [MissKey](https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/).

Alas, there was no recovery email configured, nor other users on the instance, so I needed to do some digging in the database.

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So here is the short of it.

1.  Log in with your misskey user into postgres (assuming that's what you're running MissKey on).
2.  Connect to the database.
3.  `select * from "user" where "isAdmin" = true;`
4.  Grab the `userId` for the user you're resetting the password for.
5.  `select * from user_profile where "userId" = 'your-userId';` to confirm that you're getting the right info.
6.  Get the hashed password with `bcrypt`, such as:
    `python -c 'import bcrypt; print(bcrypt.hashpw("new-password", bcrypt.gensalt(log_rounds=10)))'`
7.  `UPDATE user_profile SET password = 'hashed-password' WHERE "userId" = 'your-userId';`

Notes:

-   Step 6 requires that you have python-bcrypt installed, and uses that library to do its thing.
-   There is a difference between single quotes, double quotes, and lowercase/ capitals. This is a quirk of psql, so make sure you get those right.

And... done.

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