Confluence 2.5.6 : Restoring Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights
This page last changed on Oct 31, 2006 by david.soul@atlassian.com.
Use this document if you are unable to login as administrator, to manually replace administrator passwords or give users administration rights. Follow the instructions for either the Embedded Database or External Database. If you have not configured a database, use the Embedded instructions. Embedded Database InstructionsStage One - Identify AdministratorThis guide assumes that the first user added was an administrator. If this is not the case, search for the admin username and find their user id number, then modify their password has instead.
External Database InstructionsStage One - Identify AdministratorTo find out which usernames have admin privileges, connect to your database using a database admin tool such as DBVisualiser. Please download a database admin tool now if you do not have one installed already. Once installed, connect to your database and retrieve the list of administrator usernames with: select username from os_user u, os_group g, os_user_group ug where u.id = ug.user_id and g.id = ug.group_id and g.groupname = 'confluence-administrators' Stage Two - Replace Administrator PasswordConfluence does not store passwords in plain text in the database, but uses hashes computed from the original password. You instead cut and a paste a hash, rather than the plain password, over the existing password. Below is the hash for the password admin x61Ey612Kl2gpFL56FT9weDnpSo4AV8j8+qx2AuTHdRyY036xxzTTrw10Wq3+4qQyB+XURPWx1ONxp3Y3pB37A== To change the password to admin for a given username:
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