# Invalid admin token

**URL:** <https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016>\
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**Created:** [July 17, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016 "2021-07-17T07:57:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![copenhaus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/copenhaus/32/378_2.png) [@copenhaus](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/copenhaus)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016/1 "2021-07-17T07:57:32Z")

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Hi, running VaultWarden (just pull the latest, 2.20.4) on my Synology.

I’ve stopped the container, went to the Environment tab, added ‘ADMIN\_TOKEN’ and some string…started the container again, went to [https://FQDN/admin](https://FQDN/admin), put in the string for my token and it tells me “invalid admin token”?

DId I miss something?

Thanks in Adavnced.

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**Author:** ![BlackDex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/blackdex/32/8_2.png) [@BlackDex](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/BlackDex)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016/2 "2021-07-17T09:28:29Z")

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Did you restarted it?  
Are there some strange characters in the string maybe?

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**Author:** ![copenhaus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/copenhaus/32/378_2.png) [@copenhaus](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/copenhaus)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016/3 "2021-07-18T04:37:30Z")

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I don’t think “dB98pcY” is too much… 😁

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**Author:** ![cksapp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@cksapp](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/cksapp)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016/4 "2021-07-18T23:57:29Z")

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Do you happen to have a config.json file within your Vaultwarden ./vw-data folder?

If so you may check that as this will override any admin token set by environment variables.

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**Author:** ![copenhaus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/copenhaus/32/378_2.png) [@copenhaus](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/copenhaus)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/invalid-admin-token/1016/5 "2021-07-19T02:01:31Z")

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ah, indeed, config.json contains a different value. I tested it and it worked.

I removed that line and tested it again with my value that I set in environment variable and IT TOTALLY WORKED!