Immediate problem - can't log in as new user: how to delete account?

Gramps Web
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Short version: Incorrectly configured a new account - how can I remove it?

Long version: I’m using the latest Gramps deployed with Docker and Docker Compose (see my question, and its answer, about using it with Caddy).

I created a new user, and tried to login, but I couldn’t: I got an error that the name or password was incorrect.

Since I want to keep using that email, I need to somehow destroy that first account, which I’m guessing I set up wrongly. I may have put in the wrong password at the start - it’d be nice if, when creating a password, you had to enter it twice. It’d also be nice if there were instructions about setting parameters for use with gmail; mine were incorrect, as an email to set a new password never appeared. Maybe I set the wrong SMTP port, or something else…

I entered the server container as root, but the file /etc/passwd doesn’t contain the user I thought I’d created. Or if it’s in a database - where is the database?

So - how do I delete a user which I’d incorrectly created? At the moment I have no access to the application: I’m just at the creating a starting user place, so all I can do really is to enter the container and work in there.

(Or, I suppose, remove the containers and images and recreate them from scratch, which seems a bit of an overkill.)

Many thanks,
Alasdair

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You can use the command line, see at the bottom of User system - Gramps Web. (Note: discourse automatically links “command line” to the Gramps wiki, which is the wrong link!)

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The command line phrase for our Discourse linkify phrases might be too easy to auto link.

Added a disambiguation link to the Gramps wiki https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Command_Line page.

If you provide an html anchor and page URL on the Gramps Web site, will update it to be more precise.

e.g., <span id="command_line">command line</span>

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Many thanks … however, I’ve set up Grampsweb using docker and docker compose on a remote server, and I’m not sure where I should find the command line - do I need to enter the docker container with docker exec, or is there another way?

Anyway, I’ll see what I can do with your reply… I’m new to this. (So new, that I’ve not set up notifications properly, which is why I’m a week late answering).

Actually, I’ve just seen the docker exec line on the documentation, which I hadn’t seen before. So I’ll do that and see where it gets me.

Thank you again,
Alasdair