Can't log in and how to reset

David Cui March 25, 2022

We had a recent event that caused issues and we lost LDAP connection on our Confluence. Now no one here knows the local admin account and its password. Is there another way to sign in Confluence?

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Srinatha T
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March 25, 2022

Hi @David Cui ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

The only option now is to recover the admin rights. If you have access to the server then you can try.  Below KB has all the steps , kindly follow the same. All the best.

Hope the above information helps. 

 

Thanks,

Srinath T

David Cui March 27, 2022

Hi @Srinatha T ,

Thank you for your prompt response. We went through the article and tried the following steps:

  • We are on Confluence 5.6.3 and mysql database/Linux.
  • We found the file confluence.ctg.xml which stores the admin username and password.
  • We tried using the admin credentials via mysql Workbench (on another machine in the same network) to log in the database but kept getting errors.

Was there anything we missed or we didn't do right?

Thanks so much,

David

Srinatha T
Atlassian Team
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March 28, 2022

@David Cui  , whats the error with logging into mysql ? If you have forgot login creds of mysql as well then you will have to recover that first. 

David Cui March 30, 2022

Thank you @Srinatha T 

We have another question here if you can answer... we changed our domain controller. Where can we find the DNS config file? 

David Cui March 30, 2022

Hi @Srinatha T

You can discard my question above. We were able to locate the file where the DNS is defined and changed it to the new host. This resolved the LDAP authentication issue.

Best,

David 

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