# Lost admin password influx v2.0. Reset? **URL:** \ **Category:** InfluxDB 2\ **Tags:** influxdb\ **Created:** [October 4, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937 "2021-10-04T04:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Noerr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/noerr/32/8460_2.png) [@Noerr](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Noerr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/1 "2021-10-04T04:07:12Z")
I have forgotten or misplaced the administration username & password for InfluxDB 2 after being up and running for about a month. I’m running InfluxDB v2.0 as a Docker container. Is there any way to reset or change the password now? If not, can I at least determine what the administrator username is? (this might help jog my memory of the password) I’d rather not just scrap the whole container install and start again, because there’s a month of data acquired now in this container install. The web GUI is up, but not helpful since I can’t login. I did some poking around the container file structure using docker exec but I didn’t notice anything promising. ---
**Author:** ![dan-moran](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/dan-moran/32/5885_2.png) [@dan-moran](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dan-moran)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/2 "2021-10-04T16:31:57Z")
@Noerr if you have access to the `influxdb.bolt` file you can `cat` it and inspect its contents. Metadata values are stored as JSON within the DB so you should be able to find a text matching a pattern like `users{"name": ""}`. I’m also able to see the operator token created by `influx setup` when I do this, which I think should give you the power to overwrite your password using the CLI. ---
**Author:** ![dan-moran](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/dan-moran/32/5885_2.png) [@dan-moran](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dan-moran)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/3 "2021-10-04T16:32:44Z")
Relatedly, we’re currently working on an `influxd inspect` command to support regenerating the root user in situations like this. So the solution won’t always be so hacky 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Noerr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/noerr/32/8460_2.png) [@Noerr](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Noerr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/4 "2021-10-04T18:06:27Z")
Perfect. Thank you @dan-moran. I found influxd.bolt on the host and in the container at `/var/lib/influxdb2/influxd.bolt` I was able to confirm that my username was not admin. But even then, that didn’t jog my memory. Simple text search led me to my user token: ```auto {"id":"1234567898000000", "token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==", "status":"active", "description":"noerr's Token", ``` And then I was able to update my password with the CLI: ```auto pi@raspberrypi:~ $ docker exec -it 85e4df16a429 influx user password -n noerr -t xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx== ? Please type your new password *********************? Please type your new password again ********************* Your password has been successfully updated. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ``` And this time I have save the password. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![raymond4entrak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/raymond4entrak/32/10284_2.png) [@raymond4entrak](https://community.influxdata.com/u/raymond4entrak)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/5 "2022-06-02T06:31:32Z")
I’ve got a similar issue. I can find the token but when I execute the `influx user`, I got “Error: failed to find user “admin”: 401 Unauthorized: unauthorized access”. Please help! ---
**Author:** ![sandersbud4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/sandersbud4/32/7200_2.png) [@sandersbud4](https://community.influxdata.com/u/sandersbud4)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/6 "2022-06-02T12:42:02Z")
Hi @raymond4entrak. Have you tried the above solution given by @dan-moran. ---
**Author:** ![raymond4entrak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/raymond4entrak/32/10284_2.png) [@raymond4entrak](https://community.influxdata.com/u/raymond4entrak)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/7 "2022-06-02T14:11:31Z")
Hi @sandersbud4, Yes, I’ve tried but got the same error, 401 unauthorised access. Actually, all Influx commands has the same error. ---
**Author:** ![raymond4entrak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/raymond4entrak/32/10284_2.png) [@raymond4entrak](https://community.influxdata.com/u/raymond4entrak)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/lost-admin-password-influx-v2-0-reset/21937/8 "2022-06-06T06:41:02Z")
Sorry guys, my fault. I got the token from a wrong `influxd.bolt` file. Thanks.