III. Website Review - www.halhelms.com By Nathan Stanford admin@cftipsplus.com

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=============================================================== II. Lost CF Administrator Password By Nathan Stanford admin@cftipsplus.com ===============================================================

Many times I see emails in the ColdFusion email lists asking...

What do I do? I have lost my ColdFusion Administrator password.

I usally never recommend using Regedit for anything. However this is a great place to use it. Run Regedit and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion \Server

Change UseAdminPassword to be equal to 0

This disables the Admin Password so you can go in and change the admin password and then enable it.

While in Regedit take notice of

EnableCFREGISTRY

For most production sites this should be disabled. Disabling this could cause a problem. If you have moved the location of your ColdFusion Admin Pages to another directory. Since the ColdFusion Admin Pages use cfregistry you will not be able to get back in.

However look in Regedit at this String

UnsecuredTagsDirectory = C:\INETPUB\WWWROOT\CFIDE\Administrator

You will see this should reflect where you have your ColdFusion Administration pages.

Well that now brings up one more security issue. Anyone that has physical access to your webserver needs to be someone who can be trusted 100%. Also the same goes for anyone who has access to uploading files to the directory where your CF Admin pages are located.

=============================================================== III. Website Review - www.halhelms.com By Nathan Stanford admin@cftipsplus.com =============================================================== http://www.halhelms.com/

Check out Hal Helms website. This is a place you can find great information helping you with your ColdFusion programming. Hal has information about where he will be having his classes.

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Web Developers: Dain Anderson, danderson@cftipsplus.com Hal Helms, hal.helms@TeamAllaire.com Ian Smith, ians@inker.com Kevin Schmidt, schmidt@pwb.com Scott Knaub, scott@web-mgt.com Vincent Egt, vincent@e-dynamics.nl

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