Change admin password in keycloak 19

Getting advice
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Hi,

in keycloak 18 I could reset the admin password with deleting the admin user from database and then set the 2 variables KEYCLOAK_ADMIN and KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD and the start up the keycloak server with ‘kc.sh start’. I don’t get this to work in keycloak 19. Is there any other way to set the admin password from commandline ?.

Kind Regards
Joakim

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You can do it that way if you truncate your USER_ENTITY table and dependent tables. That will of course remove all user accounts in Keycloak. The reason this helps is that there’s a check in the setup code that won’t create the admin account if any user account exists.

If you’re using postgres, it’s as simple as running this somewhat destructive query:

TRUNCATE USER_ENTITY CASCADE;