Hello Everyone. I have an Orchest version: v2022.03.6 installed through Docker. I am playing with the source code, and I did something wrong. I need to remove the authentication because I lost the user password (shame on me). I read the documentation, that recommended to do the following command:

psql -U postgres -d orchest_api

UPDATE settings
SET value = '{"value": false}'
WHERE name='AUTH_ENABLED';

however, there is no database called settings in my Postgre. How should I proceed? In my version, there is a different way to remove the authentication?

hello @Igor Wiese! you can see in the source code that the way to handle settings in older versions was a bit different: https://github.com/orchest/orchest/blob/v2022.03.6/lib/python/orchest-internals/_orchest/internals/utils.py the instructions you refer to were added to our docs after the major refactor we did in the Orchest backend, and therefore don't apply. please have a look at the source code above to turn

AUTH_ENABLED

to

False

, hope it helps!

To remove authentication in that version is actually rather easy. At that time we still stored a configuration file directly on the host at path:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/orchest/config.json

or

~/.config/orchest/config.json

. You can then edit this file and set

AUTH_ENABLED

to

false

. That should do the trick (it might be that a restart is required I don't remember).

thank you @Yannick and @juanlu. I tried to change the config.json (simple solution), but the weird part is that the file has the

AUTH_ENABLED

=

false

. I am running it in a ./orchest start --dev, to reflect some changes I've been testing. I will try to find a solution. Maybe it is better to re-install to the newer version. :)

I am fairly certain that file changes to the

config.json

should be picked up immediately. Alternatively you can just do

./orchest stop && ./orchest start --dev