You log into the Magento 2 admin panel and you are welcomed with “It’s time to change your password.”

This can be very annoying in a development environment or on a demo server, and basically it’s like a DOS attack on the admin as you are prevented from accessing the dashboard.

Security is a good thing so to quick fix this let’s just do the following:

NOT recommended on a PRODUCTION environment!

From CLI access MySQL. This will differ depending on your set up. E.g LAMP/LEMP  or AWS RDS LAP/LEP

For this example, I’ll be using a LAMP.

mysql -u {username} -p

INSERT INTO `core_config_data` SET `value` = '0', `path` = 'admin/security/password_is_forced';
Exit

Then proceed to flush the Magento’s cache.

cd /var/www/magento
sudo php bin/magento cache:flush

Dashboard is now accessible!

Good to go 😀