[opencms-dev] password reset

[Michael Moossen]

Hi, Patrick!
   there is no possibility to reset the admin pwd in the OpenCms API.
   what you can do, if you have access to the DB, is to take the encripted
string for a pwd you know and use it to override the admin pwd.

-- 
Regards
Michael Moossen
http://www.alkacon.com



Quoting patrick <pat at monmien.com>:

> Hi!
> 
> I have looked at the site archive and in http://www.opencms-forum.de and 
> I cannot find the answer to this very simple question:
> 
> how do i reset a value for a user's password in OpenCms?
> 
> I tried to set a blank value in the USER_PASSWORD column of the 
> CMS_USERS table but that does not work.
> 
> So, How could I do this? (and I do not want to have to write any java 
> code to do that).
> 
> Of course, the user in question is Admin, that wouldn't be fun otherwise.
> 
> How do you do?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Opencms b3, tomcat 5.5.9, linux.
> 
> 
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