Failing to Set Up Owner Account: Code 401

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Describe the problem/error/question

Unable to Set up Owner account

What is the error message (if any)?

Problem setting up owner

Request failed with status code 401

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This happened BOTH when installing n8n with Docker and NPM

Please share your workflow

Set up n8n at an Ubuntu server with command “npm install n8n -g”
run it with n8n
accessed it through http://localhost:5678 and tried to set up owner account.
Avoided special characters.


## Information on your n8n setup
- **n8n version:** 1.31.2
- **Database (default: SQLite):**
- **n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):**
- **Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):** Docker AND npm
- **Operating system:** Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
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hello @rogerpenna

As you are not using the HTTPS, that workaround should help.

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New version n8n@1.34.0 got released which includes the GitHub PR 8906.