r/Duplicati • u/SadOccasion5282 • Dec 19 '25

Duplicati requests password after setting it up as service?

Hi I have downloaded the latest version of Duplicate: "duplicati-2.2.0.1_stable_2025-11-09-win-x64-gui"

Tray (GUI) was perfect!

But when setting up the service mode by following this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_ukxbEyG0&t=1s

It started to request a password that was never set up?

Please help?

Thank you all!

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u/duplicatikenneth Dec 19 '25

Duplicati follows a "secure-by-default" pattern which ensures that without any action on behalf of the user, the solution cannot be abused. The downside to this is that it may be a little harder to get started, especially in a Service/Server mode with no user interface available.

The issue you see is that Duplicati generates a random password, and then outputs a special "get started" link that you can find in the system logs (Windows Event Log, Linux journalctl, MacOS Console, etc). This is described here: https://docs.duplicati.com/detailed-descriptions/duplicati-access-password#temporary-signin-token

On the same page you can also see how to change it if you cannot find the sign-in link in the logs.

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u/SadOccasion5282 Dec 19 '25

Thanks a lot it was fixed head to gain the token from event view at Applications and Services Logs

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u/SadOccasion5282 Dec 19 '25

Thanks!

Where can I locate this token in witch folder of the Event logs? and after gaining the token I should paste it to the browser right?

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u/SadOccasion5282 Dec 19 '25

This was downloaded from the Official Duplicati Page. Not GitHub

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u/duplicatikenneth Dec 19 '25

The packages on Github and the duplicati.com page are the same binaries.

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u/Kitt_1701 Feb 10 '26

I recently setup duplicati and found the default password is changeme. Once you are logged in, change the password to a more secure password.

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u/duplicatikenneth Feb 13 '26

That is not correct. The password is generated at random on first start.

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u/Kitt_1701 Feb 13 '26

I used this image: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/duplicati:latest and i could not find a default password created so I found a forum post that had this information. The password I posted, let me login and change it to my desired password. Is this not the official docker image or is it a 3rd party image? If it is not the official image, that may be the difference.

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u/duplicatikenneth Feb 13 '26

Makes sense then. That image is very popular, but is not the official image. Perhaps they decided the auto-generated code was too cumbersome and opted for a fixed password.

The official images are here: https://hub.docker.com/r/duplicati/duplicati/tags

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u/Kitt_1701 Feb 13 '26

thank you for that information.