I’ve re-installed 3 times and still have no password appear in the filebrowser container logs.
All I get is this…
2025-07-02 04:13:45.267856+00:002025/07/02 04:13:45 Using database: /config/filebrowser.db
2025-07-02 04:13:45.284228+00:002025/07/02 04:13:45 Using config file: /config/settings.json
2025-07-02 04:13:45.285815+00:002025/07/02 04:13:45 Listening on [::]:30051
I understand security and all, but why nanny people, just leave the admin:admin and i’ll change it.
Also, when ‘console’ was mentioned I opened up the web address and looked in Chrome console. Instructions are also very obtuse.
I hope they answer with a solution, I have and still have the same problem, no one would answer me, just answer the next dickhead which their before answer worked, so I’m paying attention to this thread
Well it all depends on who made the change. Was it the maintainer of the iX app or was it an upstream change from the file browser devs, like qbottorrent changed it a while back. If it’s upstream, there’s nothing iX can do about it.
I did find the randomly generated password at the top of the log file. At least it was there and it is 16 characters long. default minimum is 12 characters. The line looks like this:
2025/07/06 20:06:14 Randomly generated password for user 'admin': pjkfrgkBNgHFzYe1
This is just stupid to randomly generate a password then put it in plain text in a log file which does not increase security at all. I think it’s more a lets do something really dumb and see how many complain.
I’m already in the process of setting up the app not trying to hack my system so why not have places to set a default user and password (enforce a certain length and characters pw if desired) in the app setup,
or
set the user and password to the currently logged in admin user that is doing the setup,
or
set a default admin/admin and force a password reset on first login.
At least the file browser app actually recorded the password in the log, I ran across an app the other day that did not record the pw though it said to look in the log for it. That was really fun - not.
Good reddit thread on the same issue - /r/truenas/comments/1lfjbr1/whats_going_on_with_filebrowser/