topic [SOLVED] How to do password reset on admin account? in Alfresco Archive

[SOLVED] How to do password reset on admin account?

wickedbuzz — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:28:57 GMT

hello,i have a funny situation here… a guy who used to work in IT here quit and he doesn't want to give admin password to a person who took his place…since i can't see entire repository so i can't do copy paste of the data to another installation of alfresco… i'm not even sure how much of the data i

Re: [SOLVED] How to do password reset on admin account?

croc — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:57:33 GMT

Hi,
Check the link below.

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

Re: [SOLVED] How to do password reset on admin account?

wickedbuzz — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:46:57 GMT

got it! thanks!!

If you do not know the admin password it can be reset several ways.

    * If you know the password of at least one user
          o Give a known user admin rights in config\alfresco\authority-services-context.xml
          o Restart the repository
          o Login in as this user
          o Reset the "admin" user's password
          o Reset the config

the file authority-services-context.xml was found in different directory but it worked like a charm anyway…
\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\authority-services-context.xml

Re: [SOLVED] How to do password reset on admin account?

chops88 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:23:00 GMT

It's happened on a few occasions now where I'm randomly locked out of the admin account. I reset the hash in the db and I'm still locked out. At this point the only option seems to be revert to backup and also the password reset plugin returns an "Unknown Error". Why does my database just get randomly corrupted? Pretty flakey…

UPDATE: nevermind. I just found a reference to the lucene-indexes folder in the windows system backup (wasn't on my radar as I use other backup methods as first line of defense). That must be it. My bad…