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Reset WGDashboard Password ​

If you ever forgot your password WGDashboard, you can simply do the following:

  1. ssh into your server
  2. Navigate to WGDashboard's src directory
    bash
    cd WGDashboard/src
  3. Shutdown WGDashboard

    • If you start WGDashboard with ./wgd.sh start

      bash
      ./wgd.sh stop

    • If you start WGDashboard with service file

      bash
      sudo systemctl stop wg-dashboard
  4. Backup wg-dashboard.ini
    Shell
    `cp ./wg-dashboard.ini ./wg-dashboard.ini.backup`
  5. Use a text editor that you're familiar with, for example nano to edit wg-dashboard.ini
  6. To reset password, remove the line starting with password = ... under the [Account] section, and save the file.
  7. Restart WGDashboard and sign in with the default password: admin
  8. After signed in, head to Settings > WGDashboard Settings > Account Settings to update with your own password.

When editing wg-dashboard.ini, please be careful not to change/remove other settings. If you do please make sure you understand what you're doing, and create backups before any changes.