Hello I'm running pihole as docker container. Recently pihole started not accepting my usual password and I have to ssh into the container to change it. docker exec -it pihole /bin/bash sudo pihole -a -p The problem is that password change does not seem to persist and once I restart the conta…

[image] BlueWings: This was the same config I used for few months and I did not have password issues until latest update. That would be the expected behaviour if that container has been running without interruption during all that time. As an update requires a restart, that would be when a ne…

[image] BlueWings: WEBPASSWORD=%randomAdminPassword% Is that literally your environment variable?

This is how it is set by IOTstack. I'm new this to docker, RPi and Pihole. I have successfully set a new password as described above several times. Wondering why the new password does not persist if I restart the container or stack. Shouldn't manually setting a password override whatever is set i…

That doesn't quite answer Dan's question: [image] DanSchaper: [image] BlueWings: WEBPASSWORD=%randomAdminPassword% Is that literally your environment variable? This would be in addition to your manual password creation approach from within your container: [image] BlueWings: docke…

Yes, %randomAdminPassword% is literally what my environment variable is. That is the default value that was included in my IOTstack installation. This was the same config I used for few months and I did not have password issues until latest update. I have changed it to a constant value and it work…

You have been very helpful. Thank you.

Just adding to this that %randomAdminPassword% is replaced at install time for IOTstack. %randomAdminPassword% is used in the template docker file, but the installation script searches for this string and updates it.

i have similar to your problem. I'm running pi-hole as docker container too, i forgot my password and i reset it again, but every time i have to login i reset the password and i found the solution to my problem, logged in to portainer to check the container and i found that when i set the contain…

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