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Default credentials (username and password) to access administration console the for Syncope administrator are:

• username: admin
• password: password

You can modify the both modifying the following file

Credentials are defined in the security.properties file, located:

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• under the conf.directory specified during build (for projects generated from archetype) or specified in the GUI installer - please note that you might need to copy the file from

• core/src/main/resources

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• in your project's source tree, if not present
• under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/syncope/WEB-INF/classes for standalone distribution
• under /etc/apache-syncope for deb packages

Note: text encoding must be set to UTF-8.

Apache Syncope <

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1.1.0

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• adminUser admin console administrator username
• adminMD5Password MD5 hash evaluation of your cleartext password (represented as a sequence of 32 hexadecimal digits)

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GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

The MD5 Linux md5 password can be obtained by via the md5sum command line tool. (Don't forget -n to exclude the new line character)-line tool of GNU Core Utilities:

$>echo$ echo -n "new_password" | md5sum 

MS Windows

Some options are available:

• MS File Checksum Integrity Verifier
  install, save your password to a file (e.g. password.txt without EOL) and issue at command line:

  Code Block
  fciv.exe -md5 password.txt

• GnuWin32 port of GNU utilities for MS Windows
• Cygwin Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows (featuring GNU Core Utilities)

Apache Syncope >= 1.1.0

From version 1.1.0 (and above) MD5 hash function has been deprecated and replaced by SHA1 (default). The following properties can be set:

• adminUser=admin admin console adminUser administrator username
• adminPassword SHA1 hash evaluation of your cleartext password (represented as a sequence of 40 hexadecimal digits)
• adminPasswordAlgorithm algorithm to be used for hash evaluation (default value: SHA1)

GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

The Under linux SHA1 password can be obtained by via the sha1sum command line tool. (Don't forget -n to exclude the new line character)-line tool of GNU Core Utilities:

$>echo$ echo -n "new_password" | sha1sum

MS Windows

Some options are available:

• MS File Checksum Integrity Verifier
  install, save your password to a file (e.g. password.txt without EOL) and issue at command line:

  Code Block
  fciv.exe -sha1 password.txt

• GnuWin32 port of GNU utilities for MS Windows
• Cygwin Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows (featuring GNU Core Utilities)