3 months ago
I lost the password of my n8n instance in my project, and I wanted to know if its possible to reset it with some process.
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3 months ago
I'm not familiar with the n8n template, but from my experience with other databases on Railway, there may be an environment variable containing your password. DO NOT CHANGE IT - but it will have your current password
It doesn't look like the case, no.
I presume the variables you mean would be in this variables section of the n8n primary service. Checking here only has encryption keys and passwords for my PostgreSQL service, but not the password for n8n itself

3 months ago
Googling took me here: https://community.n8n.io/t/reset-admin-password-on-locally-hosted-n8n/48836
3 months ago
Would using the Railway CLI to SSH into your service and running that command be an effective solution?
Well, I think I did everything correctly:
Installed the Railway CLI
Logged in the CLI into my railway account
Linked the railway CLI instance to the n8n service in my project, using the project ID
Used the command ssh to connect to the n8n service interactive shell
Used the n8n user-management:reset command you found
And… well, it says it did something, but when I tried to enter the n8n service through Railway (like usual, through the browser), its still asking for a email and password which I do not have

3 months ago
does the forgot password button not work?
3 months ago
Unfortunately I’m not going to be much help here, I’m not familiar with n8n. I would suggest asking elsewhere or googling your issue first
ah, no, It says to "contact an admin" since there's no email recovey or things like that

It's alright, you already helped a lot, I have some ideas of what to look up now
Thanks
3 months ago
In what service did you SSH into?
3 months ago
The worker or the other one?
3 months ago
try on the worker
3 months ago
(just guessing here)
3 months ago
also try redeploying these two services
3 months ago
after running that command
3 months ago
as a last effort (if you're desperate) I would try accessing the DB and seeing if there's any user related table and deleting the data there
3 months ago
but that could brick everything
3 months ago
nice!
fixed the issue, and I got to use CLI, which is always fun
ok now how do I mark this as resolved again…
3 months ago
I will mark this as solved, don't worry about it
3 months ago
!s
Status changed to Solved medim • 3 months ago

