Jellyfin Password

Posted by gudlad

I've set this up before and when I did I got a pop up box showing the username and password for Jellyfin.. After bricking the system (noob) I've rebuilt it and after following instructions, opened Jellyfin and there was no popup with creds.. There is an option to reset password and says it's creating a file in /config/passwordreset7835b5bef68bdb73fe360bfe8d933a7c.json but I can't find it anywhere.. Any advice in finding it or resetting the password another way? Sorry if this is a dumb question.. as I say noob..

2 replies

Chris wrote:

You're not stuck, and this really isn't a dumb question! You can skip that reset file completely. When you rebuilt, SparkBox automatically re-created your Jellyfin admin account for you — the username is sparkbox, and its password is saved right in your dashboard. Open the dashboard, go to Settings then Passwords, and look for the entry called 'Jellyfin admin (shared with Seerr)'. That's the one. On the Jellyfin login page, click the sparkbox avatar and paste that password in. Once you're logged in you can change it anytime under Dashboard then Users then sparkbox.

gudlad wrote:

Thanks for that - worked a treat. I was just having a play about with it setup on a Linux machine. Just rebuilt it on a UGreen NAS and install has been flawless 👍🏻