Thanks. I tried something similar before (see http://www.mail-archive.com/users@archiva.apache.org/msg02910.html) by creating a ~/.m2/security.properties file, but I set security.policy.password.previous.count to -1. Maybe zero will work for me this time.
Frankly, I'm not familiar enough with the nits of Archiva administration to follow you on your fix. I am not running Archiva under Tomcat but simply starting it on port 8080: $ cd /opt/apache-archiva-2.2.0 $ nohup bin/archiva console start & I may be stuck rebuilding it (or switching to Nexus). On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Thad, > > Thad Humphries wrote: > > > Despite earlier efforts to get Archiva to stop requiring password reset, > > it's done it again. Now neither user nor admin can get in and the "Reset > > Password" button seems to do nothing. > > > > How can I clear the old passwords and reset the admin and users? Or (as > > done at least once before) must I blow it all away an reinstall? > > > > Can't this "feature" be disable? There is *at most* only two of using > > this. > > I had also a very annoying fight with this and I am only one. I found > finally a location to turn the expiration off (at least I hope so): > > ================ %< =============== > $ sudo cat /var/lib/archiva/security.properties > security.policy.password.previous.count=0 > security.policy.password.expiration.enabled=false > ================ %< =============== > > However, I was in the same situation as you and I finally created a new DB > for the Archiva users, configured Archiva to use that one instead and let > it > recreate an admin and guest user (note, you have to turn off password > expiration before). Then I exported the two JDOUSER* tables, dropped > anything in these tables of the original DB and imported the data. After > that I configured Archiva to use the original User DB again. Now I could > login as admin again and was able to recreated my user. > > Note: Always shut down Tomcat before you change something in the DB. > > Hope this works for you also. > > Cheers, > Jörg > > -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 121-24)
