# Reset admin password? Pydio 8.2.3

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/reset-admin-password-pydio-8-2-3/2694>\
**Category:** Pydio 8\
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/reset-admin-password-pydio-8-2-3/2694 "2019-08-19T16:29:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![atrofsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@atrofsk](https://forum.pydio.com/u/atrofsk)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/reset-admin-password-pydio-8-2-3/2694/1 "2019-08-19T16:29:00Z")

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I changed the password in the GUI for the admin user, and can’t log back in anymore with the same password. Not sure what happened, but can someone please let me know how to reset the admin password for Pydio 8.2.3.

Note: There’s some instructions for older versions of Pydio online, but there’s different instructions for which files to delete, and the approach to changing the MySQL password uses MD5.

# uname -r

4.15.0-58-generic

# lsb\_release -a

Distributor ID: Ubuntu  
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  
Release: 18.04  
Codename: bionic

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**Author:** ![c12simple](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/c12simple/32/90_2.png) [@c12simple](https://forum.pydio.com/u/c12simple)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/reset-admin-password-pydio-8-2-3/2694/2 "2019-08-20T07:47:06Z")

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Hi,

You can generate a md5 string and override on password col in DB, you can login with new password.

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**Author:** ![atrofsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@atrofsk](https://forum.pydio.com/u/atrofsk)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/reset-admin-password-pydio-8-2-3/2694/3 "2019-08-20T16:25:39Z")

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Hi. It’s still not letting me login. “Cannot find user, please try again. Make sure your Caps Lock is not engaged!” The user is there, it’s like it can’t find the user for some reason.

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**Author:** ![atrofsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@atrofsk](https://forum.pydio.com/u/atrofsk)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/reset-admin-password-pydio-8-2-3/2694/5 "2019-08-21T10:46:21Z")

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Found the issue. I had set LDAP/AD as the “primary driver,” but it also needed MySQL DB as the “secondary driver.” This is why the admin user wasn’t being recognized.