Ok, you tried to dump the master password.

Obviously, the user owning the geoserver process has no linux  write
permission. Try to dump on  /tmp/mymasterpw.txt

Cheers

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Peter Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 4, 2016 12:21 PM
> *To:* Peter Cooper <[email protected]>
> *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:
>>
>>    - 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?
>>
>>
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