ColdFusion Admin Login and Password recovery

I recently took over the development of a CF site and am having some trouble obtaining the login and password to the Admin for CF. I was hoping another StackOverflower may haave some insight on obtaining access. We have access to the FTP and any other hosting related details. Any hel开发者_运维百科pful insight will be greatly appreciated.

Open up the password.properties file which lies in <coldfusion install directory>\lib

You can see some encrypted string like

password=5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8
encrypted=true

Change it to clear text with encrypted=false

password=newPassword
encrypted=false

After that you can log in using newPassword and reset to a proper password in the CF Administrator.

http://coldfusion8.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-if-you-forget-coldfusion-admin.html

I believe this also works for 6, 7,m and 9.

Building on what Ben said Simon Whatley has a great article outlining several different ways to accomplish this: http://www.simonwhatley.co.uk/resetting-a-lost-coldfusion-password really good stuff.

If you are running Coldfusion on a Mac or Linux all you need to do is:

• On the terminal go to the bin directory of Coldfusion application
• There is a password reset script: passwordreset.sh
• running the script will ask you for a new password
• Stop and Restart Coldfusion

I was going to suggest using the admin API to see if you could reset the password or even make a .car backup of the server settings in the event of a re-install.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=basiconfig_37.html

For earlier versions, you can change a registry key, see details here : http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3731