How to reset the admin password in AEM 6.3

Description

Admin password is forgotten and needs to be reset.

Environment

AEM 6.4,6.5

Steps

Enter the following command in the server command prompt (replace the path with the path to your AEM segmentstore).AEM should be stopped before running the steps below:

java -jar oak-run-*.jar console path/to/crx-quickstart/repository/segmentstore --read-write ":load admin-reset.groovy"

`:load admin-reset63.groovy`

Press enter and the script will automatically find and change the admin password to admin.
Review the output, it says:

Found admin node : SegmentNodeBuilder{path=/home/users/some/path}
Start AEM

Additional information

Needed Items:

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admin-reset.groovy

import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.security.user.util.PasswordUtil
import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.commit.CommitInfo
import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.commit.EmptyHook
class Global {
static adminNode = null;
}
void findAdminNode(ub) {
if (ub.hasProperty(“rep:principalName”)) {
if (“rep:principalName = admin”.equals(ub.getProperty(“rep:principalName”).toString())) {
Global.adminNode = ub;
}
}
ub.childNodeNames.each { it -
if (Global.adminNode == null) {
findAdminNode(ub.getChildNode(it));
}
}
}
ub = session.store.root.builder();
findAdminNode(ub.getChildNode(“home”).getChildNode(“users”));
if (Global.adminNode) {
println("Found admin node: " + Global.adminNode.toString());
Global.adminNode.setProperty(“rep:password”, PasswordUtil.buildPasswordHash(“admin”));
session.store.merge(ub, EmptyHook.INSTANCE, CommitInfo.EMPTY);
} else {
println(“Could not find admin node.”);
}