Resetting Your Admin Password

Step-by-step guides for resetting your admin password in Docker and local installations.

For Docker Deployments ​

Step 1: Generate a New Password Hash ​

Create a bcrypt hash of your new password. Replace your-new-password with the password you want to use:

htpasswd -bnBC 10 "" your-new-password | tr -d ':\n'

Step 2: Update the Password in Docker ​

Replace HASH with the bcrypt hash from Step 1 (triple-escaping any $ characters) and [email protected] with your admin email:

docker run --rm -v open-webui:/data alpine/socat EXEC:"bash -c 'apk add sqlite && echo UPDATE auth SET password='\''HASH'\'' WHERE email='\''[email protected]'\''; | sqlite3 /data/webui.db'", STDIO

If the above command fails, use the alternate method below.

Alternate Docker Method ​

The one-liner above can fail in some environments because the alpine/socat image does not include bash . Use this step-by-step approach instead:

Start an Alpine container with the Open WebUI volume mounted:

docker run -it --rm -v open-webui:/data alpine

Install required tools:

apk add apache2-utils sqlite

Generate the bcrypt hash:

htpasswd -bnBC 10 "" your-new-password | tr -d ':'

Update the password:

sqlite3 /data/webui.db

UPDATE auth SET password='HASH' WHERE email='[email protected]';
-- Exit sqlite: Ctrl+D

For Local Installations ​

Step 1: Generate a New Password Hash ​

htpasswd -bnBC 10 "" your-new-password | tr -d ':\n'

Step 2: Update the Password ​

Navigate to the open-webui directory and run:

sqlite3 backend/data/webui.db "UPDATE auth SET password='HASH' WHERE email='[email protected]';"

Replace HASH with the bcrypt hash from Step 1 and [email protected] with your admin email.

Resetting All Data ​

If you want to completely reset Open WebUI, including all user data, settings, and passwords, delete the webui.db file.

Step 1: Locate webui.db ​

If you're unsure where webui.db is located, find it with a Python shell:

import os
import open_webui
# Show where the Open WebUI package is installed
print("Open WebUI is installed at:", open_webui.__file__)
# Construct the expected database path
db_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(open_webui.__file__), "data", "webui.db")
if os.path.exists(db_path):
    print("webui.db found at:", db_path)
else:
    print("webui.db not found at:", db_path)