POSTFIXADMIN_SETUP_PASSWORD does nothing

[alaw005]

I set the POSTFIXADMIN_SETUP_PASSWORD using environment variable but this appears to do nothing as I can't login to setup.php page using the specified password.

[alaw005]

The following is a work around

Install using docker compose

docker-compose.yml file is

ersion: "3.9"

services:

  postfixadmin:
    image: postfixadmin
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    environment:
      POSTFIXADMIN_DB_TYPE: sqlite
    volumes:
      - dovecot-postfixadmin:/var/www

  dovecot:
    image: dovecot/dovecot:2.3.20
    ports:
      - "143:143"
    volumes:
      - dovecot-config:/etc/dovecot
      - dovecot-mail:/srv/mail

volumes:
  dovecot-config:
  dovecot-mail:
  dovecot-postfixadmin:

Note the POSTFIXADMIN_SETUP_PASSWORD environment variable for specifying a setup_password does
not work so need to do the following to generate it and get postfixadmin going.

docker compose up -d

Navigate to webpage

http://dockerhost.local:8080/setup.php

Enter setup password in relevant section

Copy the hash generated

Edit /var/www/html/config.local.php from the volume created by docker compose

(or connect to container and edit within container)

Add the generated hash to relevant row:

$CONF['setup_password'] = 'copiedhashfromabove';

Now restart docker (noting will only be saved if using volumes)

You can now connect to the setup.php page again and create and admin user

http://dockerhost.local:8080/setup.php

Once admin user is created can log into postfix admin using

http://dockerhost.local:8080

[CodeWithMa]

You have set the environment variable to copiedhashfromabove. Not to the plain text password.

[MP-ICT-Diensten]

I don't get it (yet), for test I tried a very simple password: abc123 with Postfix Admin 3.3.14 docker

Generated the hash and below the result:
$CONF['setup_password'] = '$2y$10$HXhaKIRzTAGG3teqgTi4NuP94Qhl2sA2cab5SYQ9deonZc6jZxeh2';

The docker env var is like this:
POSTFIXADMIN_SETUP_PASSWORD: vi

But after starting the docker this is shown during startup and that does not have the complete password, only the first part of it.:
$CONF['setup_password'] = '$2y$10';

Besides this duiring startup this message is shown:
WARN[0000] The "HXhaKIRzTAGG3teqgTi4NuP94Qhl2sA2cab5SYQ9deonZc6jZxeh2" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.

[DavidGoodwin]

Hi - The problem is that your setup password contains a dollar, and that's being (incorrectly) expanded by a shell (or perhaps PHP) somewhere (hence the 'WARN[0000] The "HXhaKIRzTAGG3teqgTi4NuP94Qhl2sA2cab5SYQ9deonZc6jZxeh2" ... warning).

[MP-ICT-Diensten]

The hashed password has the multiple $ in it, but that I cannot influence, in above example the password was abc123 and does not have a $ in it.

What i see is that with every hashed password the hashed password starts always with $2y$10$...etc...etc

For now I resolved the issue by using

# Copy config,local.php file out of container
docker cp pfa1:/var/www/html/config.local.php config.local.php

# edit the config file to have the correct config line:
#  $CONF['setup_password'] = '$2y$10$HXhaKIRzTAGG3teqgTi4NuP94Qhl2sA2cab5SYQ9deonZc6jZxeh2';
vi config.local.php

# copy the saved file back into the  container
docker cp config.local.php pfa1:/var/www/html/config.local.php

#Start container / go to setup.php page

[gabviv73]

The value of POSTFIXADMIN_SETUP_PASSWORD is the password hash, not the password itself you write in the text box of setup.php

In docker-compose.yml the dollar sign must be doubled, so if you have a string like:

$2y$10$g9EpToj2t3dNKPsFLOhmNu2d48/6ltCTdin5LRAvWNMNXtPtF9/26

You have tio write in your docker-compose.yml:

POSTFIXADMIN_SETUP_PASSWORD: $$2y$$10$$g9EpToj2t3dNKPsFLOhmNu2d48/6ltCTdin5LRAvWNMNXtPtF9/26

Please update the documentation.

[DavidGoodwin]

see ^