I have recently installed GeoServer 2.8.3 on Tomcat7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 
alongside Apache2. I am new to Ubuntu, but GeoServer seems to work fine for me. 
I have admin access, and have changed the admin password.

I am getting the message: “The master password for this server has not been 
changed from the default. It is highly recommended that you change it now”.

According to the documentation there should be a file named 
security/masterpw.info where the master password is stored using plain text.  I 
cannot find that file, so I cannot find or change the master password. Among 
others, there are the following password-looking files in folder security:
  a.. masterpw.digest 
  b.. masterpw.xml 
  c.. masterpw/default/passwd
I note a similar question on StackExchange: 
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/107265/geoserver-change-master-password-masterpw-info-missing.
 The answers (in late 2015) leave it up in the air, and there is no setting to 
"pipe the master password out to a file.

When I installed Geoserver on Windows a few months ago, I managed to find the 
file and change the root password OK, but not this time.

What can I do to find or change the root/master password?
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