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# Reset authentication
- URL: https://ghost.org/help/auth-reset/
- Published: 2026-05-27T12:38:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-28T13:07:29.000Z
- Description: If you suspect that your site's credentials might have been compromised, you should use Reset authentication to rotate all your site's keys and secrets. Every staff user — including you — will be logged out and forced to set a new password.
- Author: Ghost
- Tags: Advanced settings, Manual

If you suspect that your site's credentials might have been compromised, you should use *Reset authentication* to rotate all your site's keys and secrets. Every staff user — including you — will be logged out and forced to set a new password.

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This is a destructive action. All API keys will be reset, and all staff passwords will be reset and existing sessions signed out, including you. 

## How to reset all authentication

1. Go to **Settings → Advanced → Danger zone**.
2. Click **Reset**.
3. Ghost rotates your keys, resets staff accounts, and signs everyone out. You'll land back at the sign-in screen.
4. Each staff user will be prompted to set a new password on the next sign-in.

### Things to know

- **Integrations will stop working.** Each API key in **Settings → Advanced →** [**Integrations**](https://ghost.org/help/integrations/) is replaced with a new secret. You'll need to reconfigure each integration with the newly generated secrets.
- **Ghost will not rotate the Mailgun and Stripe keys.** Please rotate these manually.
- Members and their subscriptions are remain untouched. They stay signed in and can continue to sign in with magic link emails as usual.
- Settings, themes, posts, pages, tags, and settings are all untouched. Only authentication credentials are reset.