Can't login to Alfresco

[robert_mcdaniel]

I have a broken Alfresco Community 4.0.a install running on Windows Server 2003 that I'm trying to fix.

I have no experience with Alfresco, I was handed this server and told "we have critical documentation in here, fix this" with no other information. I have no intention of keeping this server, I just want to be able to pull the docs out of it.

The problem is that I have no login information for the server whatsoever. I know that it is absolutely not admin/admin or anything like that.

Digging through the config a bit it looks like it's using either LDAP or AD authentication (against something that no longer exists) and also SSL.

So what I want to do is remove all security and authentication except for the most basic, and then reset the base login to admin/admin. I need to perserve the data in the database.

Can anyone offer me guidance on how to do this?

[eswbitto]

If you are looking at the alfresco-global.properties file.

This isn't a guarantee, but it is worth a shot. If alfresco was installed from binary and the included database was used. Most of the time the password listed for postgresql is also the same password used for the admin account.

I'm not sure what environment you are running on.

[robert_mcdaniel]

That was a good guess, the admin password WAS the same as the database password in alfresco-global.properties.