From d3a7f2be7b28795de7be6a9729ac15ff092d109f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: redbar0n Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:03:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update locked_out.md with a new solution (#12248) * Update locked_out.md with a new solution I added a forgot password use case in which the problem was solved remarkably easy, in hope that it may help someone else. * :pencil2: Tweak Co-authored-by: Franck Nijhof --- source/_docs/locked_out.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/source/_docs/locked_out.md b/source/_docs/locked_out.md index 233492f1198..bf0d7317d77 100644 --- a/source/_docs/locked_out.md +++ b/source/_docs/locked_out.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ or need to recover your data. ### Home Assistant (including Supervised) +If you are still logged in to the web interface with your user, then you are in luck. Add a new user as an administrator and give the new user a password you can remember. Then log out, and log in with this new user. You may then delete the old user account. But this way, your configuration will remain, and you don't have to do a new onboarding process. + If you’ve forgotten your user, then deleting the files mentioned above will be necessary to start a new onboarding process. If you know the user, but not the password and you can access the [Home Assistant console](https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/commandline/) and use the command below: