topic Re: Admin password lost in Alfresco Archive

Admin password lost

bob_sauvage — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:50:09 GMT

Hello people, I lost the admin password, I configured during the installation. What is the procedure to recovery this password ? I want to modify the link mentionned in the mail sending when a new document is uploaded. How can I do it please ? Thanks a lot !

Re: Admin password lost

belashoff — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:04:35 GMT

I'm having such problem too.

How can i give admin permission to another account? Or another way to solve this problem.

Best regards, Belashoff Andrey.

Re: Admin password lost

mikeh — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:51:10 GMT

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_and_Authentication#How_to_reset_the_admin_password

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Admin password lost

belashoff — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:10:04 GMT

Admin account was deleted by accident.

If i modify

config\alfresco\authority-services-context.xml

and add users to section "AdminUsers", after restarting Alfresco Server i cannot log in with it.

After login attempt i remove it from file, and login is successfully.

Look my

config\alfresco\authority-services-context.xml

<property name="adminGroups">
            <set>
                <value>ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS</value>
            </set>
        </property>
     <property name="adminUsers">
            <set>
                <value>a.belashov</value>
            </set>
        </property>

Re: Admin password lost

dwagley — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:39:04 GMT

The wiki entry:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_and_Authentication#How_to_reset_the_admin_password

would appear to be out of date. Adding the <adminUsers> property to authority-services-context.xml no longer works. Does anyone have a workable solution for 3.3?

Doug

Re: Admin password lost

savic_prvoslav — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:59:45 GMT

hi, there is a way for you to escape your misery in java coding and adding new servlet where you will access repository and change admin password ( you can do anything actually )
If you do not find any other way in xmls let me know i can provide you with the code.

Re: Admin password lost

dward — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:20:40 GMT

You could temporarily override this property (please revert back once the change has been made)

alfresco_user_store.adminusername=someotheruser

or you could override the authenticationComponent bean in the alfrescoNtlm subsystem as described in

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Subsystems#Spring_Beans