Forgot my admin username and password in MarkLogic

Question

I have forgotten my username and password of admin in MarkLogic 5. I tried to uninstall the software MarkLogic 5 and install that again. But every time it is asking for username

Answer 1

The default data directory is under C:\Program Files\MarkLogic. Remove c:\Program Files\MarkLogic\Data directory and start ML, then run MarkLogic Admin url, which will open the url to http://127.0.0.1:8001/ It will ask initial setup. Type your new admin password there, then you will be cool bananas!

Answer 2

Getting past the admin password is supposed to be hard (or impossible), of course. You mentioned uninstalling MarkLogic; if you aren't worried about preserving data, you can uninstall MarkLogic and remove the data directory (/var/opt/MarkLogic on Linux), then when you reinstall you'll be prompted to enter a new admin password.

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edit: adding code from Jordan Stewart's comment to provide better formatting:

# stop Marklogic using a service 
sudo service MarkLogic stop 
# change directories to MarkLogic data dir 
cd var/opt/MarkLogic/ 
# remove everything including folder, this is dangerous 
sudo rm -rf * 
# start MarkLogic
sudo service MarkLogic start