Recover Couchbase password without knowing it

Question

I\'m working on a mac, downloaded the community edition for mac. Launched the app, and opened the admin console. So far so good, untill I logged out. Now I

Answer 1

Password is saved in plain text in config.dat binary file that located in \var\lib\couchbase folder.

You can search for string "username" and then next to it you will see "password" field and plain text value of the password.

I think there is an open defect to have better password storage mechanism in place.

The password can be changed using the couchbase-cli tool.

shell> ./couchbase-cli cluster-init -c 127.0.0.1:8091 --user=[CURRENT_USERNAME] --password=[CURRENT_PASSWORD] --cluster-init-username=[NEW_USERNAME] --cluster-init-password=[NEW_PASSWORD]