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In this page we detail how to change the passwords that you defined in the installation script of Datafari.

  • Admin user into Datafari web application

Go to the Datafari admin page, then click into User Management → Modify Users

Then on the array, on the admin user line, click on the textbox with the label change the password and enter the password that you want. Validate with the Enter key on your keyboard.

  • MCF admin password

Go to the Datafari admin page, then click into Connectors → Change MCF password

Enter the new password in the two textboxes and confirm.


  • Change the Apache proxy passwords

Needs a SSH connection to the Datafari server and launch a shell script


See this page : Add different users in Apache proxy - Enterprise edition


  • Change the password for PostgreSQL

Needs to directly modify different files with a SSh connection into the server


1.Stop datafari


cd /opt/datafari/bin

bash stop-datafari.sh


2. Edit the pwd.conf file into pgsql folder :

nano /opt/datafari/pgsql/pwd.conf

And change for the password that you want.

3. Change the password into the Postgresql database :

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/datafari/pgsql/lib
cd /opt/datafari/pgsql
bin/psql -U postgres
Enter your old password to login.
After that you have the postgresql prompt, enter this command :
\password postgres
Then enter the new password and repeat it.
To quit the postgresql prompt enter :
\q

3. We need to have the password obfuscated for MCF so go to /opt/datafari/mcf/mcf_home/obfuscation-utility

cd /opt/datafari/mcf/mcf_home/obfuscation-utility

And launch the script and indicate your new password, for example if I want to choose datafari as password :

bash obfuscate.sh datafari

There will be a line that appears. This string is the obfuscated password. Copy it.

4. Edit the file  /opt/datafari/mcf/mcf_home/properties-global.xml and replace the postgresql password with the obfuscated password :

nano /opt/datafari/mcf/mcf_home/properties-global.xml 

Change the line <property name="org.apache.manifoldcf.dbsuperuserpassword.obfuscated" and replace the value with the obfuscated password

5. Edit the file  /opt/datafari/tomcat/conf/mcf-postgres.properties and replace the postgresql password with the obfuscated password :

nano /opt/datafari/tomcat/conf/mcf-postgres.properties

Change the line PASSWORD= and replace the value with the obfuscated password

6. Edit the file  /opt/datafari/tomcat-mcf/conf/mcf-postgres.properties and replace the postgresql password with the obfuscated password :

nano /opt/datafari/tomcat-mcf/conf/mcf-postgres.properties

Change the line PASSWORD= and replace the value with the obfuscated password

7. Start Datafari

cd /opt/datafari/bin

bash start-datafari.sh



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