Confluence: Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights

Version 7.11

• Datacenter 7.11: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html

Edit: /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh

Old line: export START_CONFLUENCE_JAVA_OPTS="-Datlassian.recovery.password=<your-password>

New line: export START_CONFLUENCE_JAVA_OPTS="-Datlassian.plugins.startup.options='${@}' -Datlassian.recovery.password=YOUR_NEW_PASS"

• User: recovery_admin
• Passwd: <your-password>

/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/stop-confluence.sh
/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh

Version 6.10

• Datacenter 6.10: https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf610/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-952622930.html

1) Stop confluence: systemctl stop confluence

2) Edit /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/setenv.sh

User: recovery_admin 
Pass: password in setenv.sh file

/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh

Related terms

• Global Permissions Overview https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf73/global-permissions-overview-991928500.html#GlobalPermissionsOverview-confadmin

• Jira, restore password

See also

• Jira, Jira Installation: Install Jira Data Center, Integrate Jira and Confluence, Jira release notes, Installation, Jira, restore password, Jira Ops, Jira Service Management, Jira Service Desk, Jira logs, Jira Issue Collector, Jira automation, Jira notifications, Microsoft Planner
• Confluence, Install Confluence (PostgreSQL), Integrate Jira and Confluence, Confluence release notes, Confluence logs (catalina.out), systemctl start confluence, systemctl restart confluence, systemctl status confluence, Confluence versions, Confluence: Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights, OGNL