How to Reset Portainer Admin Password

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How to reset Portainer Password #

First, you have to determine the container ID on which portainer is running:

docker ps

This command will list all the containers running on your machine. You need to find the container ID of portainer:

Here the ID of the container is 975436893f41. Now stop the Portainer container:

docker stop <portainer-container-ID>

Now to reset the password, run this command:

docker run --rm -v portainer_data:/data portainer/helper-reset-password

After running the command, you will see the new username and password in the console like this:

You can use this generated username and password to login to portainer.