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title: Resetting a lost administrator password
date: 2022-08-29:00:00+00:00
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## Resetting a lost administrator password
By default, when using oCIS with the builtin IDM an ad generates the
user `admin` (DN `uid=admin,ou=users,o=libregraph-idm`) if, for any
reason, the password of that user is lost, it can be reset using
the `resetpassword` sub-command:

```
ocis idm resetpassword
```

It will prompt for a new password and set the password of that user
accordingly. Note: As this command is accessing the idm database directly
will only work while ocis is not running and nothing else is accessing
database.