ColdFusion Admin Login and Password recovery

Question

I recently took over the development of a CF site and am having some trouble obtaining the login and password to the Admin for CF. I was hoping another StackOverflower may haave some insight on obtaining access. We have access to the FTP and any other hosting related details. Any helpful insight will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Open up the password.properties file which lies in <coldfusion install directory>\lib

You can see some encrypted string like

password=5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8
encrypted=true

Change it to clear text with encrypted=false

password=newPassword
encrypted=false

After that you can log in using newPassword and reset to a proper password in the CF Administrator.

Answer 2

http://coldfusion8.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-if-you-forget-coldfusion-admin.html

I believe this also works for 6, 7,m and 9.