Recover Couchbase password without knowing it

macos couchbase password-recovery
3xil3 picture 3xil3 · Apr 22, 2013 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I'm working on a mac, downloaded the community edition for mac. Launched the app, and opened the admin console. So far so good, untill I logged out. Now I can't log in again since I've never had to set the password in the first place. It might have been set on a previous version a whole while back, but I'm not sure.

Reinstalling it doesn't work. I keep getting bounced back to the login screen.

Executing the following command as suggested in other posts and help online results in a crash of erlang

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

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
init terminating in do_boot ()

Any suggestions are welcome

I've been trying to put a new user in the admins section of the couchdb ini files, but they don't seem to take hold (password doesn't get hashed, which it should when these files are read)

Answer

Guillaume Petit picture Guillaume Petit · Jan 9, 2015

There is a cbreset_password script you can run, located in the /Contents/Resources/couchbase-core/bin folder of you CouchBase server App

So for me it was in /Applications/Couchbase Server.app/Contents/Resources/couchbase-core/bin

Simply run it and you will be able to reset the password for the Administrator account

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