How to create a new admin account for Strapi?

Derrick, this is super nice of you - I was very surprised to see your explanation. Not that I would get lost as I am pretty versed with Microsoft’s similar tools.

This thread may be of value to others in my situation (if there are any), who spent significant effort in building the backend database and lose the password. They would be happy to have a localhost equivalent of “lost password” that does not require working email