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06. qBittorent

In this section we will setup our qBittorrent downloading client.

1.  First get your temporary password that is provided to login which you can find in the logs. Use the command

sudo docker logs qbittorrent
Example output

[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
───────────────────────────────────────

      ██╗     ███████╗██╗ ██████╗
      ██║     ██╔════╝██║██╔═══██╗
      ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
      ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
      ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
      ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝

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───────────────────────────────────────

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GID/UID
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User UID:    1000
User GID:    1000
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Linuxserver.io version: 5.2.1_v2.0.13-ls460
Build-date: 2026-06-08T23:02:32+00:00
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[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
WebUI will be started shortly after internal preparations. Please wait...

******** Information ********
To control qBittorrent, access the WebUI at: http://localhost:8080
The WebUI administrator username is: admin
The WebUI administrator password was not set. A temporary password is provided for this session: yfUHUIHFX
You should set your own password in program preferences.
Connection to localhost (::1) 8080 port [tcp/http-alt] succeeded!

2.  Then go to IP address:8080 and login with "admin" and your temporary password
3.  Once logged in you can change your password and username by going to Settings > WebUI

4. 

 


5.  What's next is setting up the directory scheme for the torrent files
6.  Go to Settings > Downloads
7.  Then Look for

Default save path: /data/torrents/completed  
Keep incomplete torrents in: /data/torrents/incomplete  
Copy torrent files to: /data/torrents/torrents

8.  Congratz now your qBittorent client is all set