Go into the registry,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\Server and
change the value UseAdminPassword from 1 to 0.
Go back to the administrator and refresh the page.
Don't forget to reset the checkbox Use Admin Password (sic) in the
administrator.
Jeff Beer
Senior Programmer Architect
Hydrogen Media, Inc
(727) 530-5500 x303
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Kemp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:44 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: I'm an idiot...
>
>
> > Say, hypothetically, I had lost the password to the Cold
> > Fusion Administrator for cf4.5 on my win2k machine. Anybody
> > have any ideas where, *hypothetically* I might find the
> > password in the registry or something?
>
> Well... hypothetically you could do a search on the internet for a
> coldfusion .cfm decrypt application, then decrypt the
> "Application.cfm" and "index.cfm" file in the
> /cfide/administrator/security folder. Then comment out anything which
> has to do with checking to see if you've logged in and booting you
> back to the login screen.
>
> Then in theory by pointing to
> 127.0.0.1/cfide/administrator/security/index.cfm you'll not get booted
> back to the login screen, and therefore you can submit a *new*
> password for the administrator.
>
> I say in theory because I've just testing this in CF5 and got it to
> run, I don't have 4.5 local to test, but it must be pretty much the
> same kinda thing.
>
> That's how I'd do it, I'm sure there's a far simpler way.
>
> Oh yeah, maybe take the box offline when you do this, and restore the
> back-ups of the files which (of course) you made!
>
> 10 min job.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dan.
>
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