Reset Poste.io Admin Password

How to reset a forgotten admin password for Poste.io

Obviously, you must have a running instance of Poste.io and access to the container/pod

I know that Poste.io has extensive API integration, however, I could not find the proper documentation to reset the Admin password.

SQL Lite Database

Poste.io uses a SQLite Database to store user account information. This database is stored in the /data mount specified in the docker-compose.yaml or Kubernetes PVC, and is named users.db

Create a new Password

Poste.io uses SHA512-CRYPT for password hashing. Since we are updating the SQLite database directly, we need to create a SHA512-CRYP has of our new password. Run this command on your Poste.iocontainer/pod.

doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT
Enter new password:
Retype new password:

Enter your new password twice and copy the output, which should be similar to this:

{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$mJz6tRO0loIfBfQm$dKbEtJWG7WeEfty0uDLHGlW1fO/bdUwBWDo5wvfosfj0ZgXINY1hFZi94v5HyW.r9h2vpvr5rEBuFA8kM3m2d.

Update your Admin Password

Connect to your SQLite Database

cd /data
sqlite3 users.db

Update your Account Password

UPDATE users
SET password = '{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$mJz6tRO0loIfBfQm$dKbEtJWG7WeEfty0uDLHGlW1fO/bdUwBWDo5wvfosfj0ZgXINY1hFZi94v5HyW.r9h2vpvr5rEBuFA8kM3m2d.' 
WHERE address = '[email protected]';
.exit