adminAuth not working windows 10

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Unless you tell the service to run node-red with command line parameters, it will NOT be using that folder.

You have two choices...

  1. create account "node-red" and run the service under that account - you will see that it creates C:\Users\node-red\.node-red\settings.js on first run
  2. add command line parameters to tell the service to use the folder C:\Users\jon\.node-red

The docs tell you what the command line parameters are (or run node-red --help)...

C:\Users\xxxxx>node-red --help
Node-RED v2.0.5
Usage: node-red [-v] [-?] [--settings settings.js] [--userDir DIR]
                [--port PORT] [--title TITLE] [--safe] [flows.json]
       node-red admin <command> [args] [-?] [--userDir DIR] [--json]

Options:
  -p, --port     PORT  port to listen on
  -s, --settings FILE  use specified settings file
      --title    TITLE process window title
  -u, --userDir  DIR   use specified user directory
  -v, --verbose        enable verbose output
      --safe           enable safe mode
  -D, --define   X=Y   overwrite value in settings file
  -?, --help           show this help
  admin <command>      run an admin command

Documentation can be found at http://nodered.org

e.g. set your service to run node-red -u C:\Users\jon\.node-red

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