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calmchessplayer
calmchessplayer
Inspiring
October 27, 2011
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admin password for FMS 4.5

  • October 27, 2011
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I have a problem I forgot or made a complicated password for my FMS 4.5 installation and now I can't get into the admin console. In previous versions of FMS I WOULD go into fms.ini and retrive it .....has the plain text password been removed in fms.ini for FMS 4.5? If so how do I retrieve the admin password without reinstalling? You can PM me the answer if you don't want it public then again you might not even want me to know Is reinstalling the only option?

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    Correct answer SE_0208

    No need to reinstall - now password is not stored as text in fms.ini - its stored as salted hash in Users.xml.

    Just see this link to reset the password : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/configadmin/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119f2925f73-7ffd.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119f2925f73-7fda

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    SE_0208Correct answer
    Adobe Employee
    October 27, 2011

    No need to reinstall - now password is not stored as text in fms.ini - its stored as salted hash in Users.xml.

    Just see this link to reset the password : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/configadmin/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119f2925f73-7ffd.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119f2925f73-7fda

    calmchessplayer
    calmchessplayerAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 27, 2011

    Thanks SE_0208  that is the correct answer and I have to say administrating the server this way simplifies things for me because I'm going to the command line to do more things rather than opening up files to do some things and using command line to do other things. And best of all everything int the documentation you pointed me at works!.....BTW if anybody changes their passwords this way on LINUX when you "restart" the FMS server use ./server restart .....not ./server start otherwise it doesn't seem to work.....took me a minute to learn that

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