{"id":1643,"date":"2021-03-15T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/unlock-admin-user-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:28:54","slug":"unlock-admin-user-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/unlock-admin-user-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unlock Admin User in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever got locked out of your Magento 2 admin panel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever got this error message while logging in that says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>You did not sign in correctly or your account is temporarily disabled.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unlock-admin-user.jpg\" alt=\"unlock error message\" class=\"wp-image-13757\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks something like shown in the below image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not allowing to log in to the admin panel after several attempts is frustrating. Especially, when you are in a hurry to implement something or complete your administrative tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magento admin panel shows this kind of error message because of numerous reasons. Some of those are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Attempting the wrong user name or password more than one time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admin panel gets locked because of trying failure request<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t bother, just implement the solution to&nbsp;<em><strong>unlock admin user in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution to Unlock Admin User in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use the below command in the command line of your store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>php bin\/magento admin:user:unlock &#91;username]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">e.g:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>php bin\/magento admin:user:unlock meetanshi<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, \u201cmeetanshi\u201d is a username.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple! isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t forget to share this solution with Magento Community via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever got locked out of your Magento 2 admin panel? Have you ever got this error message while logging in that says: You did not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}