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Retrieve my password

October 28, 2014
11:28 am

gerald

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I have my thinkspeak server running smooth for months now. For some reason I can not longer log into my user account "Invalid login or password". Is there a way I can retireve this password on my server end? I am 99% sure I did not forget it. Just a bit worried someone got in and changed it. BTW I did not initially link an email to the account so that method is not going to help. Thanks.

October 28, 2014
12:37 pm

lee

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Hi,

You can try the following steps to get a new password:
1) In the directory on the server where you have ThingSpeak installed, type "rails console" or "RAILS_ENV=production rails console", depending on which environment you're using.
2) Assuming you created yourself as the first user, enter: "user = User.first" to set the user variable. If you're not the first user, you may have to set the user variable as: "user = User.find_by_login('YOUR_LOGIN_NAME')".
3) Once your user variable is set, set your email: "user.email = 'EMAIL@EXAMPLE.COM'".
4) Save the new information: "user.save".
5) Reset your password using the web form at "/users/password/new".

If you're more familiar with MySQL, you can also connect to the database and set your user email in a similar manner.

If you still can't get this working please let me know, and I'll add instructions on how to set up an admin user which can change your login/email directly from the web interface.

lee

October 28, 2014
1:14 pm

gerald

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Thanks Lee, I was able to reset it. Are there alot of hoops to jump through to create a admin account? Thanks for the help as always.

Gerald

October 28, 2014
5:51 pm

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Hi Gerald,

I've added instructions on creating an admin account here: https://github.com/other/thingspeak#optional-admin-setup .

lee

October 29, 2014
1:50 pm

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Thanks Lee, will give it a try.

Gerald

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