Oops ! I have forgotten my ColdFusion Admin Password, What to do now ?

There are many worst things that can happen in your life. Here is one such example of that, you have to make an urgent project in Adobe ColdFusion and by mistake you have forgotten your password, and you are thinking what to do now. Don't frustrate I will tell you about a simple trick through which you can overcome this situation. Please follow the following easy steps :

1.  The first step is to create a backup of CF_HOME\lib\neo-security.xml file                 
In case if you have installed the multi server edition, the path should be:
C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfusion\lib\neo-security.xml

2.   Now open the neo-security.xml file in a notepad and swith the 'true' to 'false' for the admin.security.enabled variable tag. Here is a simple example displaying you how to do this
Search the "admin.security.enabled" in the file and change the code as follows to accomplish the task :

 

3.  The final step is to restart the Adobe ColdFusion application server.

You should now be able to sidestep the login to the Adobe ColdFusion administrator and complete your project. You can further reset the password by selecting Security > Administrator.



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