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webui username/password #281
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Hi,
I'm trying to migrate from syncthing-fork to BasicSync. I exported configuration from syncthing-fork and imported it into BasicSync. Everything works fine, thanks for that. But now I'm trying to login into the WebUI and I can't understand what username/password should I use? I tried username syncthing and as a password content of <apikey></apikey> from config.xml, but it was wrong. What should I use?
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dsh2dsh commentedon Oct 24, 2026
Oh, username
syncthingand empty password works. Is it expected? In the README I see the password is the apikey.chenxiaolong commentedon Oct 24, 2026
Hmm, inside the
config.xmlfrom your export, is the<password>field empty or is it set to something like$2a$...?BasicSync is normally supposed to reset the password to the API key if it is empty so that the app doesn't leave the unprotected Syncthing web UI open to the network. (If a custom password is set, it's meant to leave that alone.)
chenxiaolong commentedon Oct 25, 2026
I was able to reproduce this by setting the password to an empty string in syncthing-fork and then importing that config into BasicSync.
BasicSync will detect this properly now with #282.
stbridge: Fix detection of empty passwords