Octoprint: simple reset to Octoprint for new user

[thomllama]

OK my brother sent me a Pi and installed octopi.. everything works but, he signed into Octoprint and can't remember the user/password... is there a way to just reset octoprint without starting from scratch? (which I tried with new SD card but for some reason the pi won't read it)

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[donovan6000]

Delete ~/.octoprint/users.yaml to remove all existing users, and change firstRun: false to firstRun: true in ~/.octoprint/config.yaml to make OctoPrint think that it's being run for the first time. Then restart OctoPrint and it'll display the dialog box for creating a new user.

[thomllama]

Ok,, but where/how is this yaml? Looked on the card directly, not there, tried through SSH, no file or directory is all I get back. I'm completely clueless with coding..

[donovan6000]

The files should be located at ~/.octoprint/users.yaml and ~/.octoprint/users.yaml.

I've never used OctoPi before, but, based on quickly looking though its repo, running the following will perform all the tasks that I mentioned.

rm ~/.octoprint/users.yaml
sed -i -e 's/firstRun: false/firstRun: true/g' ~/.octoprint/config.yaml
/etc/init.d/octoprint restart

[foosel]

Small correction:

rm ~/.octoprint/users.yaml
sed -i -e 's/firstRun: false/firstRun: true/g' ~/.octoprint/config.yaml
sudo service octoprint restart

[thomllama]

thanks guys.. will try.. guessing I can just copy paste this into the terminal once logged into the pi?

[thomllama]

Hey Donovan, you still doing the M3Dfio stuff? man you were a life saver wit that POS!! LOL only way to get that thing to do anything decent !!

[thomllama]

THAT WORKED!!!! thanks guys!!! not a friggin clue what that all was but it worked!!! _(right now I'm like the 1990's internet dancing banana gif !! )_

[foosel]

(SCNR)

I guess it's time to add this to the FAQ finally, been meaning to for a while now...

[thomllama]

ya!!! that banana dude!!!! :)

fully logged in an connected to printer!! thanks SOOO much guys!!

[foosel]

This is now also part of a new FAQ entry. Closing.