topic Re: Unable to recover admin password from a backup restore in Alfresco Forum

Unable to recover admin password from a backup restore

espressobeanies — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:13:42 GMT

I'm unable to recover the admin password after performing a restore of a data directory from another Alfresco instance running the same version. I tried the different options listed here, but they don't seem to be working. After changing the administrator database password, I'm unable to log in as t

Re: Unable to recover admin password from a backup restore

douglascrp — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:05:00 GMT

Yes, if you are doing a proper backup and restore, then you should have a kind of "clone" of the original repository, and that means all the folders, documents, users and "passwords" should be the same.

I guess you are not able to login because of another problem, not necessarily because of a wrong password.

Can you share here your log files?

Re: Unable to recover admin password from a backup restore

espressobeanies — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:22:43 GMT

Hi Doug,

I found the solution. I needed to perform a full reindex since I imported data from another instance.

Thanks!