Lost password for backrest login

[m8-t]

Hey!

Shame on me, somehow I managed to lost my password for the backrest UI, backups are still running yeah but I wanted to configure something. Is there a way to reset the password? Didn't find any hint in the docs or help of backrest. I am using docker container.

Thanks

[m8-t]

I fixed this by myself, for reference:

config/config.json

create new bcrypt hashed password and encode it with base64:

htpasswd -B -C 10 -b -c /tmp/bcrypt_hash dan YOURNEWPASSWORD && cat /tmp/bcrypt_hash | cut -d':' -f2 | base64

Shut down backrest, edit config.json:

  "auth": {
    "users": [
      {
        "name": "dan",
        "passwordBcrypt": "YOUR-B64-ENCODED-HASH"
      }
    ]
  },

restart backrest.

[cncptpr]

If you don’t want to manually create the bcrypt hash:
Deleting the entire auth section in the config.json and then restarting
will disable auth and, on the website, ask you to create a new user.