#### Tweak the `docker-compose.yml` file there according to your needs
```shell
-$EDITOR ./docker-compose.yml
+sudo nano docker-compose.yml
```
#### Then tweak the `.env` file to change the environment variables settings
```shell
-$EDITOR ./.env
+sudo nano .env
```
In the downloaded example [.env](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/docker/production/.env), you must replace:
#### Test your setup
+_note_: Newer versions of compose are called with `docker compose` instead of `docker-compose`, so remove the dash in all steps that use this command if you are getting errors.
+
Run your containers:
```shell
#### Obtaining your automatically-generated admin credentials
-Now that you've installed your PeerTube instance you'll want to grep your peertube container's logs for the `root` password. You're going to want to run `docker-compose logs peertube | grep -A1 root` to search the log output for your new PeerTube's instance admin credentials which will look something like this.
+You can change the automatically created password for user root by running this command from peertube's root directory:
+```shell
+docker-compose exec -u peertube peertube npm run reset-password -- -u root
+```
+
+You can also grep your peertube container's logs for the default `root` password. You're going to want to run `docker-compose logs peertube | grep -A1 root` to search the log output for your new PeerTube's instance admin credentials which will look something like this.
```bash
$ docker-compose logs peertube | grep -A1 root