How do I enable password reset ?

[freedomtrain]

How do I enable password reset ?

Thanks

[lunny]

Password reset is enabled default.

[captn3m0]

You can reset password using the command line as well: gitea admin change-password --username username --password PASSWORD

[pinpox]

@lunny It is not on the installation with Arch linux's AUR. At least I get an error saying it is disabled.
The command gitea admin change-password --username username --password PASSWORD returns an error:

models.SetEngine: Failed to connect to database: Unknown database type: 

[lunny]

you could use --config to indicate where is your app.ini

[Poikilos]

@techknowlogick Why was this closed without an answer? There is no obvious setting in the sample app.ini: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/custom/conf/app.ini.sample

The comments above do not answer the question. The OP did not ask how to reset a password using the command line interface, nor whether enabling password reset was default, but how to turn on the password reset feature. I am on a gitea repo now and the admin does not know how to turn on password reset (so it clearly isn't on by default--he doesn't know how to change it). If I click reset password, it says:

Forgot Password
Password reset is disabled. Please contact your site administrator.

[dipyalov]

I support @Poikilos. Why is this a closed issue? I'm facing the same problem with no clue which config option to change.

[alexanderadam]

I'm not a maintainer but this string isn't even in the source code.

@dipyalov are you sure that you are using the latest version, because there was also this PR that was merged in April.

Why was this closed without an answer?

Did his suggestion (gitea admin change-password --username username --password PASSWORD --config CONFIG_PATH) not work?

[jolheiser]

@Poikilos @dipyalov Password reset is only considered enabled when a mail service is set up, as that's how Gitea currently sends the account recovery.

If no mail service is set up, I believe the CLI is the only other way to do it, or have your admin change it for you and then you change it again after regaining access.
It's not ideal, but I think perhaps a nice future feature would be to then allow admins to force users to change their password, similar to how the CLI does.

[Poikilos]

I was referring to Gitea Version: 1.8.1 (Go1.12.5). I'll tell him that lack of mail config may be the issue. Shouldn't the admin interface give some kind of warning (to configure mail) where the setting would be, instead of just hiding password reset the setting?

[Poikilos]

Did his suggestion (gitea admin change-password --username username --password PASSWORD --config CONFIG_PATH) not work?

@alexanderadam The whole point of this topic is that end users cannot reset their passwords. Again, this topic is not discussing manual intervention by admins.

[alexanderadam]

The whole point of this topic is that end users cannot reset their passwords.

Okay, then I probably misread binaryplease writing that he tested the admin command it without --config and got an error. 😉

this topic is not discussing manual intervention by admins

IMHO it isn't possible to do this on a misconfigured system.
Because you can't add the email configuration without being an admin and you can't execute the gitea command.

So either the admin adds the email configuration like described in the config cheat sheet or he uses the command captn3m0 wrote about.

Or, to make this clear: the whole point should is, that asking your admin should be the first step if you are an end user and you encounter some problems on a particular installation (which is not only true for gitea).

[Poikilos]

@alexanderadam

Okay, then I probably misread binaryplease writing that he tested the admin command it without --config and got an error. 😉

He's not the OP, and the command isn't something "disabled" (just malfunctioning in the case of one reply, which is off topic or a workaround at best). There is no need to be snarky. The issue is clear, and I've not misunderstood it, unless you or the OP can point to where there is a setting that disables the CLI workaround.

So either the admin adds the email configuration like described in the config cheat sheet or he uses the command captn3m0 wrote about.
Or, to make this clear: the whole point should is, that asking your admin should be the first step if you are an end user and you encounter some problems on a particular installation (which is not only true for gitea).

The OP could be an admin, and the admin on my instance doesn't know how to enable it. I'll ask again: Shouldn't the admin interface give some kind of warning (to configure mail) where the setting would be, instead of just hiding the password reset setting (or is it just hidden from users, also without a warning to admins)?

[jolheiser]

@Poikilos There is no setting for password resets. It is considered "enabled" when a mail service is configured, and "disabled" otherwise, as far as I can tell.

Perhaps a better error message could be given, at least to admins?
Password reset is disabled. Please contact your site administrator. seems reasonable to give to a user, since they don't need to know the inner workings.
However, perhaps an admin should be given more context, such as Please set up a mailing configuration to enable Password Reset or something similar?