[Solved] Qbittorrent default password not working

Apps and Virtualization
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This is to show you how to fix default credentials not working in qbittorrent in truenas core not sure whether it will work in scale

first open a shell to the qbittorrent jail you created

then stop the qbittorent service using the following command
service qbittorrent stop

vi the config file
vi /var/db/qbittorrent/conf/qBittorrent/config/qBittorrent.conf

Add the following line at the end of the file

[Preferences]
WebUI\Password_PBKDF2="@ByteArray(ARQ77eY1NUZaQsuDHbIMCA==:0WMRkYTUWVT9wVvdDtHAjU9b3b7uB8NR1Gur2hmQCvCDpm39Q+PsJRJPaCU51dEiz+dTzh8qbPsL8WkFljQYFQ==)"

Finally start the service again
service qbittorrent stop

Once you login make sure to change the password from the webUI
When i did this i uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin

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Thanks for finding this. Slight correction, your final step should say “start” not "stop.

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Thank you for a simple solution that worked right out of the box. I had 10 hours into installing qbit and 2-3 of them were getting past a nonexistent login. Plenty of stuff for Docker but nada for a vanilla install and default credentials.

Thanks and happy new year.