Thanks Christian,
I have tried that and all I can get is the response:
“java.io.FileNotFoundException: {every filename I try} (Permission denied)”
Do I need to change some permissions somewhere?
Peter
From: Christian Mueller
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 12:21 PM
To: Peter Cooper
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Cannot find Root/Master password
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 <[email protected]> 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:
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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