Thanks – that worked, and I have managed to change the master password. On with the tutorials!
From: Christian Mueller Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 1:03 PM To: Peter Cooper Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Cannot find Root/Master password 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 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users -- DI Christian Mueller MSc (GIS), MSc (IT-Security) OSS Open Source Solutions GmbH -- DI Christian Mueller MSc (GIS), MSc (IT-Security) OSS Open Source Solutions GmbH
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