'Change admin password in Gitea

I created an admin user with a password, that contains a special character. Installation of Gitea was successful, but I can't login. I can't get new password, because it says:

Sorry, Register Mail Confirmation has been disabled.

I tried command gitea admin change-password, but command is not recognized.

git gitea

Solution 1:^[1]

From your issue, any gitea command (like gitea admin change-password --username myusername --password asecurenewpassword) ends up with:

gitea: command not found

If you installed from binary, you will note that the $PATH was not modified, and gitea was called directly from its installation folder.

./gitea web

So you can do the same for changing the password:

cd /path/to/gitea
./gitea admin change-password --username myusername --password asecurenewpassword

Note that Robert Ranjan adds in the comments:

/path/to/gitea is gitea's home path, where you find folder custom.
In my case gitea's home is /var/lib/gitea. From this path, you should see file: custom/conf/app.ini which is expected by default.

Solution 2:^[2]

For Current GITEA sometime it will not work by

cd /path/to/gitea
./gitea admin change-password --username myusername --password asecurenewpassword

You need to specify the configuration also e.g. :

cd /path/to/gitea
./gitea admin change-password --username myusername --password asecurenewpassword -c "/etc/gitea/app.ini"

Solution 3:^[3]

When using a dockerized gitea service, you will have to execute the gitea admin ... command inside the container as git user instead of root:

docker exec -it <container ID> su git bash -c "gitea admin change-password --username <username> --password <password>"

Replace <container ID>, <username> and <password> with the appropriate values.

Solution 4:^[4]

(docker swarm)

docker exec ( or ssh or however you get to shell
inner command for reset gitea -c /etc/gitea/app.ini admin admin change-password --username <username> --password <password>
inner command for list gitea -c /etc/gitea/app.ini admin user list

Solution 5:^[5]

For NixOS users, it's a bit more complicated:

su
su gitea
nix-shell -p gitea
gitea admin user change-password -c /var/lib/gitea/custom/conf/app.ini -u user-name -p new-pwd

(tested on Gitea version 1.15.6)

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Solution 5	luochen1990

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