sabnzbd suddenly asking for login when i don't use a login

[johnnybgood]

I've been using sabnzbd on ubuntu for years, but today suddenly when i try to login to the web ui it's asking me for a username and password. I've never used a username and password, i've always had it set to just start without a login
I've been looking at posts that say to open the sabnzbdini file and look for the first occurence of
username = user
password = pass
and change the lines to:

username = ""
password = ""

however when i look at the sabnzbd,ini file, the only occurences of username are in the provider sections, there is no entry for username = in the [misc] section. There is a value for password = but i asume that's an encrypted value.

I tried adding
username = "" above the password and changing pasword to
password = "" (after stopping sabnzbd)
but after starting sabnzbd again i looked at the file and it was back to what it had been before.

I'm at a loss as to what to try next and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[sander]

Are you using Chrome as webbrowser?

What if you use a fresh, other webbrowser

And: what is your output of:

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$ cat ~/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini | grep -i -e user -e pass -e '\[' | head -10
[misc]
password_file = /home/sander/does-not-exist.txt
password = ""
username = ""
[logging]
[growl]
growl_password = ""
[nzbmatrix]
username = ""
[newzbin]

[johnnybgood]

Thank you for your help

I must be blind, there was a username set, i just couldn't see it, even though i did searches in the file, However your command found it for me,

Somehow the username and password got set to match my news providers login credentials.
When i sett hem both to "" it started working again

Thanks for your help.

[sander]

My experience: automatically filled out by the webbrowser. Annoying indeed.