Neo4J: command failed: initial password was not set because live Neo4j-users were detected

Question

On Ubuntu 16.04.3 desktop, I've just uninstalled and reinstalled Neo4j. I haven't started it yet. But when I try to set the initial password ...

sudo neo4j-admin set-initial-password 1234

... I get this output:

command failed: initial password was not set because live Neo4j-users were detected.

How can that be? What can I do to set the initial password?

Answer 1

I switched from Neo4J version 3.3.2 to 3.2.1 and then executed following command to change my password:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"password":"WHATEVER THE PASSWORD IS"}' -u neo4j:neo4j http://localhost:7474/user/neo4j/password

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