Question
In Design & Compose the default Server password is changeme. How can this be changed?
Answer
You can generate a new password using the following steps :
stop all Design & Compose applications
start a command line and go to the Design & Compose installation dir
perform command java -jar tools/passwordgenerator.jar newpassword
the command will return the hashed password
open C:\Users\<user>\design-compose-21.04\security\authentication.xml
replace the password for the admin user and save the xml file
start the Design & Compose applications again
Note :
The following error can occur when running the passwordgenerator tool :
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try againException in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: id/security/auth/util/passwordgenerator/Main has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0
This means a wrong Java version is being used, in most cases the default system Java version.
Replace the current Java version for this command prompt session with the one that is used for Design & Compose:
set PATH=C:\Program Files\Unifiedpost\Design-Compose-21.04.3\jre\bin;%PATH%
If you then perform java -version you should get :
openjdk version "11.0.6" 2020-01-14 LTSOpenJDK Runtime Environment Corretto-11.0.6.10.1 (build 11.0.6+10-LTS)OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Corretto-11.0.6.10.1 (build 11.0.6+10-LTS, mixed mode)
With this Java version, you will be able to run the passwordgenerator.