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ColdFusion administrator password is lost or forgotten.


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Article ID: 31
Author: Greg Hedgepath
Created: 8/27/2009
Modified: 8/27/2009
Views: 569

Imagine suppose you have forgotten the admin password and cannot log in to ColdFusion Administrator. Here is a solution for this, follow the below steps.

  1. Make a backup copy of CF_HOME\lib\neo-security.xml file

    In case of multi-server editions, the path is:
    C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfusion\lib\neo-security.xml
  2. Open the neo-security.xml file in a text editor and change 'true' to 'false' for the  admin.security.enabled  variable tag. For example, search the file for "admin.security.enabled" and change the entry as follows:

    <var name='admin.security.enabled'><boolean value='false'/></var>
  3. Restart the ColdFusion application server.

You should now be able to bypass the login to the ColdFusion administrator. You can reset the password by choosing Security > Administrator.

 


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