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title: Resetting Swimlane Platform Installer (TPI) Console Admin Password
slug: turbine-installer/resetting-swimlane-platform-installer-tpi-console-admin-password
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createdAt: 2025-12-09T13:04:57.051Z
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Once the admin password is stored it cannot be read back, the only way to recover is to reset it.

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kubectl kots reset-password \<namespace>
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This is also valid syntax to change the password:

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kubectl kots reset-password -n \<namespace>
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**NOTE**: for embedded clusters the namespace is default