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<h1 class="content-title">MissKey: Resetting Admin Password</h1><span class="content-meta"><p class="date">2023-08-11</p><span>1 min read </span><a href="http://localhost:1313/tags/misskey">misskey</a> <a href="http://localhost:1313/tags/admin">admin</a> <a href="http://localhost:1313/tags/postgres">postgres</a> <a href="http://localhost:1313/categories/tech">@tech</a> </span></section>
<section><p>So recently I had the need to reset the admin password in <a href="https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/">MissKey</a>.</p>
<p>Alas, there was no recovery email configured, nor other users on the instance, so I needed to do some digging in the database.</p>
<p>So here is the short of it.</p>
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<li>Log in with your misskey user into postgres (assuming that’s what you’re running MissKey on).</li>
<li>Connect to the database.</li>
<li><code>select * from "user" where "isAdmin" = true;</code></li>
<li>Grab the <code>userId</code> for the user you’re resetting the password for.</li>
<li><code>select * from user_profile where "userId" = 'your-userId';</code> to confirm that you’re getting the right info.</li>
<li>Get the hashed password with <code>bcrypt</code>, such as:
<code>python -c 'import bcrypt; print(bcrypt.hashpw("new-password", bcrypt.gensalt(log_rounds=10)))'</code></li>
<li><code>UPDATE user_profile SET password = 'hashed-password' WHERE "userId" = 'your-userId';</code></li>
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<p>Notes:</p>
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<li>Step 6 requires that you have python-bcrypt installed, and uses that library to do its thing.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p>And… done.</p>
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