Gitlab App - How to change the root password

[DavidGarciaCat]

This is updating the description of the app so we all know how to change the password for the root user when installing the app for the very first time.

I have tested it with my local install (umbrel home) and I got it from this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55747402/docker-gitlab-change-forgotten-root-password

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[nmfretz]

Thanks for this PR @DavidGarciaCat. Changing both the username and password for the root user is all available from within the app's UI, which is something fairly common across apps that people would likely find just by exploring.

With that in mind, should we refrain from adding additional instructions in the app description, especially ones that require terminal commands?

Changing username:

Changing password:

[nmfretz]

@DavidGarciaCat I'm closing this PR, but linking to it here for our consideration when updating Gitlab to the latest release:
#1564

[DavidGarciaCat]

Hey, @nmfretz

According to the Umbrel App yaml file, we only see the default username (root) but no password. Shall I assume there's no password? If that't the case, then maybe we should add a note for this:

umbrel-apps/gitlab/umbrel-app.yml

Line 61 in ce53944

defaultUsername: "root"

[nmfretz]

Ah, okay I see the confusion now!

According to the Umbrel App yaml file, we only see the default username (root) but no password. Shall I assume there's no password?

There actually is a password and it is shown to the user. It is a deterministically derived password that is unique to a user's umbrel installation + app (https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/blob/7103e98909041bb8e15702b4b2e3e7f78da4b351/packages/umbreld/source/modules/apps/legacy-compat/app-script#L69-L88).

In the umbrel-app.yml file it is assigned here:

umbrel-apps/gitlab/umbrel-app.yml

Line 60 in 9dc50f8

deterministicPassword: true

And in the compose file it is assigned here:

umbrel-apps/gitlab/docker-compose.yml

Line 24 in 9dc50f8

gitlab_rails['initial_root_password'] = '${APP_PASSWORD}'

But those details themselves don't matter to users because they don't need to know or care about an app's underlying config files. Instead they'll see the password in the app store when they install the app:

and as well if they right click an app icon and select "show default credentials"

In a future umbrelOS update we also plan to have a notification come up the first time an app is clicked letting the user know of the default credentials.

[DavidGarciaCat]

Ah !! I see, this is the same approach used for Pi-hole.

OK, thanks for the update. And yes, that makes this PR completely unnecessary.

Thanks!