How do I reset the password for Couchbase web administrative console?

Couchbase Server
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I forgot the password for the web console. How do I reset the password? I am on Windows.

Acutally the password seems to be saved in plain text in config.dat file! Is this really a good practice?

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The file’s permissions only allow authorized users to view it. We agree though that it should be stored with stronger security. There is an open issue on this.

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The password can be changed using the couchbase-cli tool.

shell> ./couchbase-cli cluster-init -c 127.0.0.1:8091 --user=[CURRENT_USERNAME] --password=[CURRENT_PASSWORD] --cluster-init-username=[NEW_USERNAME] --cluster-init-password=[NEW_PASSWORD]
SUCCESS: init 127.0.0.1

More details about the couchbase-cli tool can be found here: http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-1.8/couchbase-admin-cmdline-couchbase-cli.html

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Dipti: changing the password is different from resetting it though. I thought that’s what was being asked about.

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We currently don’t have a way to reset the password using cli. We have an enhancement request open.

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One current workaround is to stop the current server, copy out (or just cp -l) data files, uninstall, install, set up, cp -l data files back and create again the same bucket(s). It will honor the data files there.

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Hi,
i have tried that and looks like they read a command like bash. Here is the output

./couchbase-cli cluster-init -c localhost:8091 --user=Administrator --password=c3nt0s!2345 --cluster-init-username=administrator --cluster-init-password=golive
-bash: !2345: event not found

Please help me regarding this…is my command is right? or is it not?

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You’ll probably need to escape that ‘!’ in your password.

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Path: /opt/couchbase/bin
Command:

./erl -noinput -eval ‘case file:read_file("/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/config.dat") of {ok, B} -> io:format("~p~n", [binary_to_term(B)]) end.’ -run init stop | grep cred

{rest_creds,
{creds,[{“a”,[{password,“passwd”}]}]}]},

userid is "a"
password is “passwd”

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I confirm that the Dipti’s command works well !

./erl -noinput -eval ‘case file:read_file("/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/config.dat") of {ok, B} -> io:format("~p~n", [binary_to_term(B)]) end.’ -run init stop | grep cred

Thanks a lot, it helps us a lot :slight_smile:

Best

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seems to fail on cb 3.0

$ ./erl -noinput -eval 'case file:read_file("/opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/config/config.dat") of {ok, B} -> io:format("~p~n", [binary_to_term(B)]) end.' -run init stop | grep cred

get :

init terminating in do_boot ()
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You can use cbreset_password tool located in $CBDIRECTORY/bin (e.x./opt/couchbase/bin). You need to be a superuser to do so.

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How do I reset pwd if the couch base is installed in a docker container?

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You should be able to CD… in to the server/bin/cbpassword reset tool and reset it from there.