did a pasword reset and cant login with "blank pasword"

[Koenvdw 3]

Hi for some reason I was logged out on my emby server.  (I'm admin)

I didn't knew my password anymore, so I did a reset on the local machine. 

First looked for my user name in users.db so there were no mistakes there. 

Then did a reset. Got the txt with the pin in it. 

Followed the linked, entered the pin and then got the message that I should login with a blank password. 

When I try to login with my username and leave the password blank, I get the message: " Invalid username or password. Please try again."

What should I do ?

 

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[rbjtech 5345]

19 minutes ago, Koenvdw said:

Hi for some reason I was logged out on my emby server.  (I'm admin)

I didn't knew my password anymore, so I did a reset on the local machine. 

First looked for my user name in users.db so there were no mistakes there. 

Then did a reset. Got the txt with the pin in it. 

Followed the linked, entered the pin and then got the message that I should login with a blank password. 

When I try to login with my username and leave the password blank, I get the message: " Invalid username or password. Please try again."

What should I do ?

 

https://emby.media/support/articles/Admin-Password-Reset.html

[Koenvdw 3]

6 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

https://emby.media/support/articles/Admin-Password-Reset.html

That's exact what I did, like I wrote in my post, but I still can't login... I use my username and leave  the pasword blank as mentioned in the message, but it doesn't work.

Edited June 16, 2023 by Koenvdw

[rbjtech 5345]

Hmm ok - I've never had to do this myself.

@CarloIs there a chance something has changed re the security changes that no longer allows blank passwords even with a local Pin reset as per the Wiki ?

 

[Koenvdw 3]

Hi rbjtech

Thanks for helping, I solved the problem. 

I was looking in the users.db file to find my username, and was looking at the wrong one  (red cross), while I had to look a bit further (green rectangle).

Hopefully this helps others

 

[Luke 42256]

If you forgot the username, you can also leave it blank on the forgot password screen and then it will reset the password for every single user.

[Carlo 4561]

On 6/16/2023 at 1:34 PM, Luke said:

If you forgot the username, you can also leave it blank on the forgot password screen and then it will reset the password for every single user.

Sending you a PM about this.

 

 

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by Carlo