<![CDATA[Root password reset and more generally Gitea CLI usage]]>Hello,

I haven't been able to reset the root account password on my Gitea instance, and more generally, any command that I issue (/home/git/gitea/gitea admin user list) do fail.

It appears that Gitea doesn't want to pick the custom location for configuration file, or that I don't know how to set it up correctly.

Related discussion here on Stackoverflow.

su git bash -c "/home/git/gitea/gitea admin user change-password -u root -p badpassword -c "/app/data/app.ini" "

Any help would be greatly appreciated

root@6cb7d536-ceaa-4d26-b387-fbd54b1c02b6:/app/data# su git bash -c "/home/git/gitea/gitea user list"
2021/10/29 16:46:48 cmd/web.go:102:runWeb() [I] Starting Gitea on PID: 26034
2021/10/29 16:46:48 ...s/setting/setting.go:569:NewContext() [W] Custom config '/home/git/gitea/custom/conf/app.ini' not found, ignore this if you're running first time
2021/10/29 16:46:48 ...s/setting/setting.go:1164:CreateOrAppendToCustomConf() [F] failed to create '/home/git/gitea/custom/conf/app.ini': mkdir /home/git/gitea/custom: read-only file system
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5926/root-password-reset-and-more-generally-gitea-cli-usageRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 19:32:25 GMTFri, 29 Oct 2021 17:09:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Root password reset and more generally Gitea CLI usage on Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:36:02 GMT]]>@girish

Thanks for your extremely quick and helpful answer!

It worked!

Side note: I have been using cloudron for about 2 years now, and I am a happy paying customer.

The fact that it is the first question I had to ask so far is a testament to the quality of your work and documentation. Congratulations to the team!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/38615https://forum.cloudron.io/post/38615Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:36:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Root password reset and more generally Gitea CLI usage on Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:32:09 GMT]]>@luzeal Try something like:

sudo -u git /home/git/gitea/gitea -c /run/gitea/app.ini admin user change-password -u root -p changeme123

To explain:

  • The app runs as git user (doesn't run as root)
  • The config file is located at /run/gitea/app.ini
  • The gitea binary is at /home/git/gitea/gitea

I will update our docs with this info.

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