Hello everybody, We have some questions about how to reset password for users in discourse. We know that the command “RAILS_ENV=production /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake admin:create” can reset the password for existing users or create a new admin user. But we do not want to reset password for a…

What problem are you solving? Why not have them use the reset password link and set it themselves? I would do it from the rails console rather than sql. I would have to look at the source to get the code.

@supermathie , thank you very much! We can reset password by RAILS_ENV=production rails runner 'User.find_by_email("admin@example.com").update!(password:"AdminAdmin1234566xxxxxx")'

How to reset password for users in PostgreSQL database

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supermathie (Michael Brown) November 25, 2022, 7:26pm 3

From the rails console:

User.find_by(username: 'gollum').update!(password: 'shiiiire!-BAGGINS!')

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