Missing neo-security.xml

[fredp60157821]

Just recently CF 2016 refused to start and I found out, from viewing the error logs, that my neo-security.xml got corrupted.  I do not have a neo-security.bak file.  Is there anywhere I can get a rudimentary neo-security.xml file just to get things going?  I realize that all my datasources and other settings will be lost, but at least getting the application server running so I can get to CF Administrator will be a big step forward.

[Charlie Arehart]

Fred, I can give you below, one,but note that it will have nothing to do with any need to redefine your datasources (they are in another file).

Instead, your CF admin password won't work with this because there's a "salt" field in the file, used encrypting for the Admin password, so the one you have (in another file) will not work with this salt.

But what you can do is turn off the need for a password in the admin (temporarily, of course) by editing the (I'm pretty sure) the admin.security.enabled, setting it to false and then restarting CF. You will find in the Admin's security page that you can turn back on the need of a password and at that time set one, which will use this file's salt.

I don't know if the DB passwords you may have are encrypted with this salt. if they are, then you would need to re-enter the passwords.

Let us know how it goes.

<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'><var name='AuthorizedUsers'><struct type='coldfusion.util.FastHashtable'></struct></var><var name='admin.userid.root'><string>admin</string></var><var name='CrossSiteScriptPatterns'><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'><var name='&lt;\s*(object|embed|script|applet|meta)'><string>&lt;InvalidTag</string></var></struct></var><var name='admin.userid.root.salt'><string>5A66E42E6E2B5E688FA82D7EAF652A3E</string></var><var name='rds.enabled'><string>true</string></var><var name='allowconcurrentadminlogin'><boolean value='true'/></var><var name='allowedAdminIPList'><string></string></var><var name='contexts'><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'><var name='/'><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'></struct></var></struct></var><var name='admin.security.enabled'><boolean value='true'/></var><var name='admin.userid.required'><boolean value='false'/></var><var name='secureprofile.enabled'><boolean value='false'/></var><var name='rds.security.enabled'><string>true</string></var><var name='sbs.security.enabled'><boolean value='false'/></var><var name='rds.security.usesinglerdspassword'><boolean value='true'/></var></struct></data></wddxPacket>

[Charlie Arehart]

Fred, any news? If what I offered was helpful, could you consider marking it as the answer?

[fredp60157821 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your help. I tried a couple of neo-security.xml files, but couldn't get them to work, So I uninstalled ColdFusion and then reinstalled it.  That solved the problem, but was a fair amount of work.