Clarify and expand on admin credentials detail
authorLeopere <1068374+Leopere@users.noreply.github.com>
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:41:15 +0000 (07:41 -0500)
committerChocobozzz <chocobozzz@cpy.re>
Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:43:25 +0000 (09:43 +0100)
It felt unclear so I clarified and suggested a method for obtaining the credentials easier.

support/doc/docker.md

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@@ -50,9 +50,15 @@ You can use the regular `up` command to set it up:
 ```shell
 $ docker-compose up
 ```
-
-**Important**: note that you'll get the initial `root` user password from the
-program output, so check out your logs to find them.
+### Obtaining Your Automatically Generated Admin Credentials
+Now that you've installed your PeerTube instance you'll want to grep your peertube container's logs for the `root` password.
+You're going to want to run `docker-compose logs peertube | grep -A1 root` to search the log output for your new PeerTube's instance admin credentials which will look something like this.
+```BASH
+user@s:~/peertube|master⚡ ⇒  docker-compose logs peertube | grep -A1 root
+
+peertube_1  | [example.com:443] 2019-11-16 04:26:06.082 info: Username: root
+peertube_1  | [example.com:443] 2019-11-16 04:26:06.083 info: User password: abcdefghijklmnop
+```
 
 ### What now?