0.16-beta1 - what to grep for in the logs for the admin password?

[rwlove]

I believe that I'm looking at the right logs because of the below text, but I'm not sure what to look for to find the admin password. I've searched for 'admin' and 'password' and I haven't found it.

➜  home-ops git:(main) ✗ kubectl -n home logs frigate-0| grep -i admin
Defaulted container "main" out of: main, k8tz (init)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.753042883  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('ALTER TABLE "user" ADD COLUMN "role" VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT \'admin\'',)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.754281517  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('UPDATE "user" SET "role" = \'admin\' WHERE "role" IS NULL',)

➜  home-ops git:(main) ✗ kubectl -n home logs frigate-0| grep -i password
Defaulted container "main" out of: main, k8tz (init)
2025-05-06 21:13:19.527409626  17:13:19.527 WRN github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/streams/producer.go:170 > error="size 42746 < 119836: RTP header size insufficient for extension" url=rtsp://user:password123@reolink-frontdoor:554/h264Preview_01_main
2025-05-07 08:13:49.915020600  04:13:49.914 WRN github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/streams/producer.go:170 > error="size 10743 < 106368: RTP header size insufficient for extension" url=rtsp://user:password123@reolink-frontdoor:554/h264Preview_01_main

2025-05-06 20:37:13.752930961  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Migrate "029_add_user_role"
2025-05-06 20:37:13.753042883  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('ALTER TABLE "user" ADD COLUMN "role" VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT \'admin\'',)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.754281517  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('UPDATE "user" SET "role" = \'admin\' WHERE "role" IS NULL',)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.754788546  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Done 029_add_user_role
2025-05-06 20:37:13.759902683  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Migrate "030_create_user_review_status"
2025-05-06 20:37:13.760061526  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('\n        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "userreviewstatus" (\n            "id" INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,\n            "user_id" VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,\n            "review_segment_id" VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,\n            "has_been_reviewed" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,\n            FOREIGN KEY ("review_segment_id") REFERENCES "reviewsegment" ("id") ON DELETE CASCADE\n        )\n        ',)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.760616868  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS "userreviewstatus_user_segment" ON "userreviewstatus" ("user_id", "review_segment_id")',)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.761856668  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Run <lambda>
2025-05-06 20:37:13.762095151  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : sql ('ALTER TABLE "reviewsegment" DROP COLUMN "has_been_reviewed"',)
2025-05-06 20:37:13.796585152  [2025-05-06 16:37:13] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Done 030_create_user_review_status

[hawkeye217]

See the code:

frigate/frigate/app.py

Line 622 in 83188e7

logger.info("*** Reset admin password set in the config. ***")

And the docs: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/authentication/#resetting-admin-password

[nilber79]

So I'm confused.
The issue I'm experiencing is that the password is not being printed in the logs. Being directed to the docs to reset the admin password does not fix this issue. There is absolutely no documentation to troubleshoot the fact that the password hasn't been printed in the logs, and the fix is very circular.
Is there not some way to specify a default admin password or to access frigate without the password, in order to set and/or change the admin password, or create other users?

[hawkeye217]

Unless you've customized your logging settings in some way, the password is always printed in the logs when you set reset_admin_password: true in your config.

Setting passwords for users (or the admin) can also be done via the Frigate UI.

You can always access Frigate through the unauthenticated port (5000) if you don't want to use a password.

All this is in the documentation: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/authentication/

[nilber79]

I did not customize my logging settings in any way. I used the docker compose from the documentation, lightly modified to my specific configuration. There was no admin password printed in the logs after initial startup or after setting reset_admin_password: true in my config. No amount or searching the logs manually or grepping for "admin," "password," "pass" or otherwise ever revealed a password. I even passed the entirety of the log file to CoPilot and it confirmed that I hadn't somehow missed the password....not there.

I also couldn't access frigate at port 5000 but that was because I never uncommented it in my docker compose file.

I turned off authentication completely, accessed the web ui on port 8971, and changed the admin password that way.

Pointing back to the same three lines in the documentation was completely unhelpful.

[NickM-27]

realistically, we will need more information like a full copy of logs that you are seeing when having reset_admin_password enabled, because if it truly isn't printing then that would be a bug.

However, we are unable to reproduce any failure to print the password in the logs

[2025-05-18 23:11:47] frigate.app                    INFO    : ********************************************************
[2025-05-18 23:11:47] frigate.app                    INFO    : ********************************************************
[2025-05-18 23:11:47] frigate.app                    INFO    : ***    Reset admin password set in the config.       ***
[2025-05-18 23:11:47] frigate.app                    INFO    : ***    Password: 96eba09ebfbb770165685cca3dc3d49b   ***
[2025-05-18 23:11:47] frigate.app                    INFO    : ********************************************************
[2025-05-18 23:11:47] frigate.app                    INFO    : ********************************************************

[rwlove]

Thanks @hawkeye217!