Re: [Unity-idm-discuss] Unity admin interface password lost

[Krzysztof B. <kb...@un...>]

Dear Daniel,

W dniu 13.01.2022 o 15:39, Fernandez Rodriguez Daniel via 
Unity-idm-discuss pisze:
>
> Dear Unity admins,
>
>
> my name is Daniel Fernandez.
>
> A few werks ago, I inherited a working Unicore/Unity deployment. 
> Unfortunately its configuration is not documented AT ALL and the 
> person who configured it left the company some time ago...
>
> I would like to login into the UNITY administration interface but 
> unfortunately I don't have the admin password.
> Is there a way I can reset the password for the admin user? I have 
> full access to the server and the H2 database files.
>
> I tried to connect to the H2 database with the user 'sa' (same 
> password) but it did not work..
> We are running Unity 2.6.2 version.

Ouch, that's an old instance. Set those two properties in 
unityServer.conf (also - worth trying if you still have those, whether 
the credentials from there work?):


|unityServer.core.initialAdminUsername=my-new-admin-user|
||unityServer.core.initialAdminPassword=my-new-admin-pass||


and restart. You have full reference here 
http://www.unity-idm.eu/documentation/unity-2.6.0/manual.html#configuration


That might not be all. Inspect logs carefully. In general you should 
have new user added with the above password. However there are two caveats:

1. (unlikely) the password you set need not to be super easy, might be 
rejected. The best is to use something random and longer than few chars.

2. (possible) the password will be assigned to a credential with id 
'sys:password'. Now, your former admin could disable this credential 
from the authn options enabled on AdminUI. If that is the case you will 
have to add it in unityServer.conf (there should be authenticator using 
this credential + the authenticator needs to be enabled on AdminUI endpoint.


HTH,
Krzysztof