#Upgrading to 1.3.3 locks me out

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dapper bison
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When I upgraded to 1.3.3 from 1.2, I get locked out of the web interface. I have a sneaking suspicion that upgrading is erasing Appwrite’s configuration and that’s why I am getting locked out. Ordinarily, it summarily logs in without my having to enter a password. I can’t send myself a password reset link because there’s appears to be a bug that prevents the SMTP from connecting.

chilly garnet
dapper bison
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You mean the docker-compose.yml and .env files? They are there. I just realized I put in a different _APP_OPENSSL_KEY_V1. Might that cause a problem?

dapper bison
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Thanks, that indeed was the problem. Does that mean once we pick a key, we are stuck with it forever?

river moon
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It seems like it.

You can see here
https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/blob/master/app/init.php#L434
Any data that is inserted into the database will use the provided key for encode and decoding the encryption,

So if you'll change your key, then all the fields that are set to be filter through is filter will become inaccessible, for example the console user password attribute.
https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/blob/master/app/config/collections.php#L1259

     [
           '$id' => ID::custom('password'),
           'type' => Database::VAR_STRING,
           'format' => '',
           'size' => 16384,
           'signed' => true,
           'required' => false,
           'default' => null,
           'array' => false,
           'filters' => ['encrypt'],
     ],