How to login as admin without social login on remark42 commenting system

Question

I choose remark42 as my commenting system, I only offer anonymous access to leave messages, this is my docker compose config file

version: '2'

services:
    remark42:
        image: umputun/remark42:latest
        container_name: "remark42"
        ports:
            - 8080:8080
        environment:
            - AUTH_GITHUB_CID=12345667890           # oauth2 client ID
            - AUTH_GITHUB_CSEC=abcdefg12345678      # oauth2 client secret
            - AUTH_EMAIL_ENABLE=true
            - AUTH_ANON=true
            - REMARK_URL=http://10.10.10.22
            - SITE=remark
            - SECRET=abcd
            - ADMIN_PASSWD=1234
        volumes:
            - ./var:/srv/var

according to the Technical details, it mentioned:

Admin authentication (--admin-password set) allows to hit remark42 API without social login and with admin privileges. Adds basic-auth for username: admin, password: ${ADMIN_PASSWD}

I set my ADMIN_PASSWD to 1234, but can't find a way to login as admin, the only API to login required a social provider

GET /auth/{provider}/login?from=http://url&site=site_id&session=1

lots of apis need admin authorization

Answer 1

According to the documentation (https://github.com/umputun/remark42#admin-users) you just have to login using the way you want and put the userid in your docker-compose.yml file like this:

environment:
        - ADMIN_SHARED_ID=github_ef0f706a79cc24b17bbbb374cd234a691a034128,github_dae9983158e9e5e127ef2b87a411ef13c891e9e5