diff --git a/src/freedombone b/src/freedombone
index 7d12a24b..bd558ab7 100755
--- a/src/freedombone
+++ b/src/freedombone
@@ -8431,6 +8431,10 @@ function install_rss_reader {
     fi
     mysql -u root --password="$MARIADB_PASSWORD" -D ttrss < $RSS_READER_PATH/schema/ttrss_schema_mysql.sql
 
+    # change the password from the default
+    RSS_READER_ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH=$(echo -n "${RSS_READER_ADMIN_PASSWORD}" | sha1)
+    mysql -u root --password="$MARIADB_PASSWORD" -e "update ttrss_users set pwd_hash = 'SHA1:${RSS_READER_ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH}', salt= '' WHERE login = 'admin';" ttrss
+
     # ensure that socks5 proxy is used
     if ! grep -q "CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE" $RSS_READER_PATH/plugins/af_unburn/init.php; then
         sed -i '/curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, _CURL_HTTP_PROXY);/a \\t\t\t\t\tcurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);' $RSS_READER_PATH/plugins/af_unburn/init.php