Hello, I am trying to change the default password for the “admin” using the new “grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password passwd_name” feature. First time i ran the command i got the following error message: “ubuntu@hostname:~$ sudo grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password test123test Grafana-serve…

Does running the cli tool with the reset command start the server - that seems strange? Is your Grafana working or is your sqlite db corrupted? Other questions? Have you tried it without the sudo? Does the admin user exist? You haven’t removed it or renamed it? Or made other changes?

Hi, Grafana is working fine, i am provisioning whole installation with Ansible and i tested on existing/fresh installation. Tried without the sudo and also the admin user exists. Tried with Grafana started and stopped… still the above result…

Maybe you should have mentioned that this was an Ansible script from the start as your question was hard to understand otherwise. It looks like you are executing the CLI tool before Grafana has started. When Grafana starts then this is the log output: INFO[04-12|18:11:22] Starting Grafana …

Hi, I did not mentioned because was not relevant, i use Ansible to install, import datasources and dashboards. This has working in the last 6 months. Now i wanted to change the admin password from Ansible also but the tests from above are from manually running the commands… i did not got to the Ans…

Then I need to double check some facts here. Your Grafana server is started and accepting requests When you run the command sudo grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password test123test, the Grafana server either restarts or starts executing database migrations:[quote=“m4rc, post:1, topic:234”] ubuntu@…

Yes, Grafana was started. Now i retried again: ubuntu@xxxx:~$ sudo grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password test123test Grafana-server Init Failed: Could not find config defaults, make sure homepath command line parameter is set or working directory is homepath From HOMEPATH using sudo: ubuntu@x…

After investigating this a bit more, the reset-admin command is a bit special and bit buggy. It works by starting a Grafana instance and because of that it needs to know where the config file is: [image] m4rc: Could not find config defaults, make sure homepath command line parameter is set or w…

Just pushed a fix for the homepath cmd arg bug: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/6ec1d16327c9514e62b0c9c2ca93f6fa3b2aade0

I have the same problem. But I did an operation. I deleted the admin user on the page [Screenshot from 2017-08-15 17-43-46] I clicked X. How should I add admin back

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m4rc April 20, 2017, 11:48am 10

Okay, i tried with curl and worked fine.

Thank you

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