{"id":278,"date":"2025-07-24T19:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/07\/24\/11844184-resetting-n8n-user-password-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:14:25","slug":"11844184-resetting-n8n-user-password-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11844184-resetting-n8n-user-password-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Resetting n8n user password at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reset your n8n user password at Hostinger if you&rsquo;ve forgotten it and can&rsquo;t access your instance.<\/p><h3>Before you start<\/h3><ul>\n<li>The &ldquo;Forgot Password&rdquo; feature only works if SMTP is properly configured. If SMTP isn&rsquo;t set up, you&rsquo;ll need to reset the user data manually using the browser terminal, as described below.<\/li>\n<li>If you&rsquo;re new to n8n on VPS, see <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-use-the-n8n-vps-template-at-hostinger-first\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10473267-how-to-use-the-n8n-vps-template-at-hostinger\/\">how to use the n8n VPS template at Hostinger first.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-reset-your-n8n-user-data\">Reset your n8n user data<\/h2><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Access your VPS through a web console:<\/p>\n<div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-06_11-57.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1143\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-06_11-57.png 1143w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-06_11-57-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-06_11-57-1024x331.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-06_11-57-768x249.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1143px) 100vw, 1143px\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Navigate to the n8n directory:<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative group\/copy bg-bg-000\/50 border-0.5 border-border-400 rounded-lg\">\n<div>\n<pre class=\"code-block__code !my-0 !rounded-lg !text-sm !leading-relaxed\"><code>cd \/docker\/n8n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Run the following command to reset user data:<\/p>\n<pre><code>docker exec -u node root-n8n-1 n8n user-management:reset<\/code><\/pre>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">After the reset is complete, restart the container:<\/p>\n<pre><code>docker restart root-n8n-1<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><p class=\"no-margin\">Once restarted, you&rsquo;ll be prompted to create a new admin account when you access the n8n web interface.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">This process will delete existing users and allow you to set up a new account from scratch. It won&rsquo;t affect your workflows or execution data.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to reset n8n user password<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11844184-resetting-n8n-user-password-at-hostinger","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14649,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}