Change password without "Old Password" in L5

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I recently updated to Lucee 5… Today I needed my Lucee Admin password to be able set up ContentBox, but when I tried the pw I have written down, it does not work. So I logged out and tried it with the Admin and sure enough it does not work there either. But I do have it saved in the browser and can still use that to log into the Admin, I just can’t use it as the “old password” to change the password.

I found a number of ways to “reset” the pw in Lucee 4 by removing things in the lucee-server.xml file, but it seems there is no way - that I could find - to do the same thing in L5 to do a reset.

IS there a way to reset the pw in Lucee 5 (version: 5.2.8.50) like 4? Or, what are my options?

Thanks a bunch! Randy

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You can do this easily with CFConfig. I’m on my phone ATM but something like

cfconfig set adminPassword=mypass to=/path/to/context

You can get more info here:

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Sounds easy enough, but I only have CommandBox on my dev machine… Never figured out how to use CB in my remote production environment (everything I have ever seen seems to be dev/test environments)… What is needed in a prod scenario to utilize both CB and in this case cfconfig?

Thanks in advance

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So I loaded CB on my server and tried a couple of things to access the Lucee server and finally ended up with:
CommandBox> cfconfig set adminPassword=testPW to=C:\lucee\tomcat\lucee-server\context\context toFormat=LuceeServer@5
result: [adminPassword] set. (so I think it worked)

Problem is I cannot log in now to the Lucee admin… gives me “Invalid Password”… maybe just need to restart Lucee?

Any pointers? (Thanks!)

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Yes, you need to restart Lucee for it to pick up the new password unless you have configured Lucee to watch your config files for changes (which is unlikely since that’s a hidden feature)

Never figured out how to use CB in my remote production environment

It’s just a binary. You copy the box.exe there and you run it just like you would the Git CLI or any other tool.

You can also point CFConfig at a server over a UNC network share with the format \\server/share if you have your network setup like that. So something like:

cfconfig set adminPassword=mypass to=\\web002/C$/path/to/context
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Also, a random note-- the toFormat should be redundant. In 99% of cases, CFConfig will automatically detect the engine and version so you shouldn’t need to include that unless you like to type extra stuff.

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Thanks a bunch… Keep up the good work!