[p4] How to reset superuser's password?

[Tetlow, Gordon]

Instead of taking the server down, I've just taken a journal line and
replayed it into the database. That way you don't have to do a full
checkpoint surgery.

-gordon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Grills
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:14 AM
> To: 'Viery Lee'; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] How to reset superuser's password?
> 
> 
> Have you checked the P4 administrator's guide?
> 
> One thing I've done in the past is to start up a new unlicensed 2 user
> server, and set a password for a user.  Then I do a 
> checkpoint.  I take my
> normal server down, check point it, find the user record for 
> the super user,
> replace the password with the known one from the user in the 
> unlicensed
> server, and recover that one record into the normal server.  
> This technique
> is not for everyone to use, as it's certainly error prone and 
> importing a
> bad record into your DB may cause all kinds of craziness, but 
> it works with
> minimal impact on the rest of your server.
> 
> j
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Viery Lee
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:12 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] How to reset superuser's password?
> 
> 
> Hi, All,
>              I change server security levels by issue this command: p4
> counter -f security 1. Then I reset the superuser's password.
> 
>              But when I log in using new password I've set, 
> perforce server
> show the error: Password invalid.
> 
>              How to resolve this problem?
> Rgds,
> Viery
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