ack.. this will teach me to see if the question had already been
answered.. sorry for the redundant post!
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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