# I forgot my password to access the portal http: localhost: 8200

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/i-forgot-my-password-to-access-the-portal-http-localhost-8200/7575 "2019-07-21T10:04:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![drwtsn32](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/drwtsn32/32/2591_2.png) [@drwtsn32](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/drwtsn32)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/i-forgot-my-password-to-access-the-portal-http-localhost-8200/7575/4 "2019-07-23T13:35:39Z")

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Stop Duplicati and start it with this command line option:

`--webservice-password=`

It will clear the password from the database from my limited testing. Remove that command line option after it’s been cleared so that you can set a new password if desired.

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