How can I generate a new admin secret?

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When I set up the project a secret got added to the server.js file, and I moved that secret to my .env file. However during some migration of files on my system I no longer have my .env file and Strapi is now giving me an error trying to log into the admin. How can I create a new secret string without reinstalling the whole project from scratch?

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If you are on a unix system (mac or Linux) you can create one by running this in the terminal

openssl rand -base64 32
If you are on windows you can use git bash to execute the same same command.

This will generate a new random string

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I would recommend 64 instead of 32 but yes.