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How to update Alfresco password(s) from database

How to update Alfresco password(s) from database

How to update Alfresco password(s) from database

Nathan Obert
Introduction Alfresco is a Content Management System, recently purchased by Hyland. I needed the steps to reset the admin password through the database. I decided to document the steps here. Inspect passwords The passwords are stored in essentially NTLM format (utf16le encoded in md4 hash). You can’t really turn a hash back into a password, however you could obviously turn a string into a hash. This could possibly be brute forced.