14 I forgot my UI lock password

Mike Tzou edited this page 2018-12-06 22:20:21 +08:00

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• Before qBittorrent v3.3.6 on macOS

You locked the qBittorrent user interface and forgot the password you used? Don't worry, you can recover from this.

1. Exit or kill qBittorrent process.

2. Open the preference file with a text editor.
   Windows
   %APPDATA%\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.ini = C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.ini
   Linux
   ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf
   macOS
   ~/.config/qBittorrent/qbittorrent.ini
   

3. Remove the following lines:

   [Locking]
   password=<encrypted_password>         # this only appear on qBittorrent version < 4.2.0
   password_PBKDF2=<encrypted_password>  # this only appear on qBittorrent version ≥ 4.2.0
   locked=true
   

4. Save the file

5. Start qBittorrent again

Before qBittorrent v3.3.6 on macOS

1. Exit or kill qBittorrent process

2. Open a terminal and run the following command:

   defaults delete com.qbittorrent.qBittorrent Locking.locked
   defaults delete com.qbittorrent.qBittorrent Locking.password
   

3. Start qBittorrent again

General

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Troubleshooting

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External programs

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Search plugins

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Themes

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Translation

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WebUI

WebUI API

State	Version
Current	qBittorrent ≥ v4.1
Previous	qBittorrent v3.2.0 - v4.0.x
Obsolete	qBittorrent < v3.2.0

WebAPI clients

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Alternate WebUI

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Reverse proxy setup for WebUI access

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WebUI HTTPS configuration

• Let's Encrypt Certificates + Caddy2 Reverse Proxy
• Let's Encrypt certificates + NGINX reverse proxy - Linux
• Let's Encrypt certificates - Linux
• Self-signed SSL certificates - Linux

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Linux

• Running qBittorrent without X server (WebUI only)
• Running qBittorrent without X server (WebUI only, systemd service set up, Ubuntu 15.04 or newer)
• OpenVPN and qBittorrent without X server

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Development

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• How to debug WebUI code

Compilation

Common information for CMake

*BSD, Linux

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• Docker
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macOS

• cmake (x86_64, arm64, cross-compilation, static linkage)
• autotools/qmake

Windows

• MSVC 2019 (CMake, static linkage)
• MSVC 2019 (qmake, static linkage)
• MSYS2

Obsolete compilation guides

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