Okay, I finally found the reset messages and I'm back with new passwords. I've also changed security.policy.password.previous.count to 0 and restarted. We'll see in another 90 or 180 days.
Very odd, though: When I login as admin, the login dialog does not disappear. I have reload the page before I see my admin menu options. On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Thad Humphries <thad.humphr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > -- "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)
