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The content below is for Apache Syncope <= 1.2 - for later versions the Reference Guide is available.

Default credentials (username and password) for Syncope administrator are:

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

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 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 < 1.1.0

adminUser administrator username
adminMD5Password MD5 hash of cleartext password (represented as sequence of 32 hexadecimal digits)

The MD5 password can be obtained via the md5sum command-line tool of GNU Core Utilities:

$ echo -n "new_password" | md5sum

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:
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)

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

The SHA1 password can be obtained via the sha1sum command-line tool of GNU Core Utilities:

$ echo -n "new_password" | sha1sum

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:
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)