Question

Is there a way to reset passwords? I inherited the company's Twiki and none of the passwords work. Is there a default TwikiAdmin password?

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-- PeterDavis - 13 Mar 2008

Answer

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There is the admin password of the configure script and user passwords.

To clear the admin password, do a shell login and empty out the $TWiki::cfg{Password} setting in your twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg.

On user passwords, it depends if you authenticate internally or externally via LDAP or AD. If internally, reset the password of a user. If the e-mail changed and the user does not remember the password, manually fix the e-mail in twiki/data/.htpasswd.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Mar 2008

I deleted the line but I am still being asked for the admin password when I try to use the configure page. I restarted apache too. I tried different browsers just in case.

-- ArunachalamMallikarjunan - 2012-05-23

You might have Apache configured to require authentication for configure, check twiki.conf file. This is no longer needed since the configure script does its own password checking.

See also ApacheConfigGenerator.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-05-23