Change admin password in Gitea

Question

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.

Answer 1

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"

Answer 2

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)