Cold Fusion Admin Login and Password recovery

Question

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 helpful insight will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Open up password.properties file which lie's in the \lib

You can see some encrypted string like

password=5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8 encrypted=true

Change it to clear text with "encrypted=false"

password=L3tM31n encrypted=false