Jellyfin account trouble

[bifferos]

Jellyfin is great and for the most part just sits there doing it's thing.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with me, but I seem to get this problem every 2 months or so.  I try to access the dashboard!

Then I can't remember my admin username/pw.  I think there is some issue that Firefox doesn't remember the creds.  Then I start searching up ways to find my username.  I try chatgpt (or web links) get irrelevant suggestions like /var/lib/jellyfin/data/users (which doesn't exist), I tried looking in the log file, but it seems to have expunged my admin user, and just shows guest.

Eventually I end up giving up and resetting the IsStartupWizardCompleted value in system.xml which has worked in the past.

Unfortunately I'm having less luck this time.  I can create a new user using the wizard.  But whatever name I give it it still seems to behave as guest.

Any idea how I can get my admin account back without completely re-installing?

many thanks!

[TheDreadPirate]

You can try unlocking your account with some database commands. Documented in the link below. Make sure you replace the placeholder usernames with your admin user's name.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...er-account

Or fixing your admin account permissions, which is documented in the same link a bit further down.

Make sure you back up /var/lib/jellyfin before attempting.