topic Re: Resetting the admin password in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-the-admin-password/m-p/17106#M7634 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could set another user with full admin rights, if you know their password. See config\alfresco\authority-services-context.xml. They should then be able to reset any password.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you do not know any password - you can configure&nbsp; authentication to allow regardless of password. See the authentication configuration docs.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You could then login in as admin, no password, fix it up and then put all the config back.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could fix up the MD4 hash held in the database for the admin user although you would have to unravel some hibernate stuff.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:15:50 GMT andy 2006-03-20T09:15:50Z Resetting the admin password https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-the-admin-password/m-p/17105#M7633 Is it possible to reset the admin password, say from the console, if it were to be forgotten, lost, etc?&nbsp; If so, how is it done?&nbsp; Just planning for the "what ifs".Thanks Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:11:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-the-admin-password/m-p/17105#M7633 hikenboots 2006-01-28T02:11:09Z Re: Resetting the admin password https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-the-admin-password/m-p/17106#M7634 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could set another user with full admin rights, if you know their password. See config\alfresco\authority-services-context.xml. They should then be able to reset any password.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you do not know any password - you can configure&nbsp; authentication to allow regardless of password. See the authentication configuration docs.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You could then login in as admin, no password, fix it up and then put all the config back.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could fix up the MD4 hash held in the database for the admin user although you would have to unravel some hibernate stuff.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:15:50 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-the-admin-password/m-p/17106#M7634 andy 2006-03-20T09:15:50Z