Forgot Neo4j Server Password

Question

Because this question was never answered, I was hoping someone could help me reset the password to connect to my neo4j password (at localhost:7474). Zachary wrote a post on solving this by someone restarting the service using:

sudo service neo4j-service restart 

but I did not find this helpful. In the terminal, I ran bin/neo4j restart (which I think is the equivalent command), and was not able to reset my password.

Answer 1

Depending on environment and installation type you need to look for a file named auth under directory dbms and remove it.

In MacOs, for dmg installations (adjust for custom locations):

/Users/xyz/Documents/Neo4j/default.graphdb/dbms/auth 

or (homebrew install)

/usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/x.x.x/libexec/data/dbms/auth 

Windows users should look for same file in the default.graphdb/dbms directory.

In Ubuntu

/var/lib/neo4j/data/dbms/auth 

In docker containers

/var/lib/neo4j/data/dbms/auth 

Alternatively, you might choose to disable auth in the configuration file, usually found in

MacOs:

/Users/xyz/Documents/Neo4j/.neo4j.conf 

or

/usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/x.x.x/libexec/conf 

and set this property to false

dbms.security.auth_enabled=false 

After doing this, you need to restart the server for changes to make effect, you will be asked for a new password.

Answer 2

In window machine, I deleted the auth file at following path :

Users\systemUser\Documents\Neo4j\default.graphdb\data\dbms and then I restarted the neo4j server.

Navigate to http://localhost:7474. It will ask you to enter the password for user neo4j. Enter default password (neo4j)

After this you will be navigated to change password screen. Change your password.

Note : for other operating systems auth file path may be different