Admin Login Lost

[gregluce]

Hi all. I'm a newbie at this. A guy set up the Alfresco for us as a document repository and left the company. I have a user account, but I can't get into the admin account. Is there a way to reset the admin password? I'm not sure what version it is. Probably only about 6 weeks old.

Any ideas?

[simon]

Hi,

We are using Linux but I can imagine this will be more or less the same configuration on Windows. The admin password can be found in the web-client-config.xml file:

<admin>
   <initial-password>admin</initial-password>
</admin>‍‍‍

In Alfresco on Linux with Tomcat this file should be stored here: <alfresco>/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-client-config.xml
Hope this helps…

[onlaed]

So yesterday i moved alfresco from the QA server to the production server.  I made sure all the file paths and database settings were the same.  My first problem was making the alfresco db user the owner of the database ( MS SQL 2000.)  So i changed the owner of all the tables to dbo, re-created the user alfresco and then made him the owner of the database.  Then everything looked ok till i TRIED TO LOGIN TO ALFRESCO.  None of the users and there passwords worked.  Since there are only 5 users i did the following.
Open the authority-services-context.xml located in WEB-INF\classes\alfresco, locate the xml tag <property name="adminUsers">  and add the tag <value>guest</value> just like below.  This will allow you to access the system without logging in.  Now you can reset any users password including the admin user.

<property name="adminUsers">
  <set>
    <value>guest</value>
      <value>admin</value>
      <value>administrator</value>
    </set>
</property>

[sharifu]

I cannot seem to log into tomcat manager. this is what i have

<tomcat-users>
   <user
      username="CN=Alfresco Repository Client, OU=Unknown, O=Alfresco Software Ltd., L=Maidenhead, ST=UK, C=GB"
      roles="repoclient" password="null" />
   <user
      username="CN=Alfresco Repository, OU=Unknown, O=Alfresco Software Ltd., L=Maidenhead, ST=UK, C=GB"
      roles="repository" password="null" />


   <role rolename="manager" />
   <user username="tomcat" password="secret" roles="manager" />
   <role rolename="tomcat"/>
   <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>
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[callen]

This appears to have been introduced in 4.0c, due to a fix for IE7/IE8 share download authentication problems.

Please see

https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42597

This also occurs for 4.0d