Hi Peter Login as admin and go to Security-->Passwords. You can change the master pw. If you do not know the current master password, you can export it to a file.
Cheers Christian On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Peter Cooper <pe...@pcooper.me.uk> wrote: > 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: > > - masterpw.digest > - masterpw.xml > - 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? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > > -- DI Christian Mueller MSc (GIS), MSc (IT-Security) OSS Open Source Solutions GmbH
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