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[GH-ISSUE #14057] feat: Users should stay logged in across restarts/ upgrades #55789
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Originally created by @luantak on GitHub (May 20, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/14057
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Problem Description
Whenever I upgrade or restart my openwebui instance all users have to re-authenticate.
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I would like for users to not have to re-authenticate (type in their userrname / password) after the instance is restarted.
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I'm using the default sqlite backend (if that's relevant)
@athoik commented on GitHub (May 20, 2025):
Check Keeps being logged out after every update?
@luantak commented on GitHub (May 20, 2025):
Ah ok thanks for this, however why not just persist this token by default somewhere in
/app/backend/data(if none is set explicitly?@Classic298 commented on GitHub (May 20, 2025):
Because it is meant to be used as environment variable.
At last, if you use high concurrency setups like k8s/helm or just use multiple uvicorn workers they all need to have it in the environment variable and read it from there. Otherwise multiple processes need to read it from a single file ;)
@luantak commented on GitHub (May 20, 2025):
@Classic298 so if it isn't set a distributed setup wouldn't work anyway
@Classic298 commented on GitHub (May 20, 2025):
yeah if it isn't used as a distributed setup, it could indeed make itself a persistent value by just reading the same file everytime.
I suspect this wasn't done to keep complexity low (otherwise there'd be two different ways of reading it depending on whether Open WebUI runs with a distributed setup)