Forgot your Password?

The Slipstream web console (status, paired devices, PIN pairing) is protected by a login password. New Linux and SteamOS installs ask you to choose it in the browser. It lives on the host, so if you can't get past the login screen, recover or change it on the host machine itself.

New to the console? See The Web Console to enable it and arm pairing.

This is only the web console login. It is not your client/device pairing, if a client won't connect, that's Pairing, not this password.

Find your host

Find your host platform for exactly where the password lives, then read it back or change it below:

Read it back, or set your own

The password is stored on the host as a SLIPSTREAM_UI_PASSWORD=... line, so you can read it straight out of the file. On the Linux packages and the SteamOS host:

sed -n 's/^SLIPSTREAM_UI_PASSWORD=//p' ~/.config/slipstream/web-password   # Linux packages
sed -n 's/^SLIPSTREAM_UI_PASSWORD=//p' ~/.config/slipstream/web.env        # SteamOS host

To replace it with one you pick, follow Login password. It has the exact edit-and-restart steps for each platform above, and it's the one place that procedure is kept up to date.

The password is right and it still won't let you in

The login screen says "Wrong password." for every failure, including two that have nothing to do with the password you typed.

• Too many attempts. Five wrong guesses from the same device are free; every one after that arms a lockout that doubles, a second, two, four, up to five minutes. While it holds, even the correct password is refused. Wait it out, or clear it at once by restarting the console (the lockout is only kept in the console's memory):

  systemctl --user restart slipstream-web

• No password is configured at all. If the file is missing or empty, the console shows the first-run setup screen. Choose a password there. On older Linux installs you can intentionally delete ~/.config/slipstream/web-password and restart the console to return to setup:

  systemctl --user restart slipstream-web

  If the setup screen cannot save the password, restore the line SLIPSTREAM_UI_PASSWORD=<your-password> in the file and restart again.

Still stuck? See Troubleshooting.