Password Recovery

Recovering a Password on Windows

1. Stop all Traverse components (Start > Programs > Traverse > Stop Traverse Components).
2. Open a command prompt and execute the following commands:

c:

cd <TRAVERSE_HOME>

utils\databaseUtil.pl --action export --file provdb.xml

This creates a file named provdb.xml which you can edit to reset the password.

1. Search for the superuser entry and remove the entire des prefix along with the encrypted password. Then, enter a cleartext password (with no des prefix).

<loginName code="Ansi" lang="en">superuser</loginName>

[...]

<password code="Ansi" lang="en">{des}xyzabc</password>

replace with:

<password code="Ansi" lang="en">password</password>

1. Import the file back into the database:

utils\databaseUtil.pl --action import --file provdb.xml

1. Enter y to replace the existing database.
2. Restart Traverse.

Recovering a Password on UNIX

1. Log in to the Traverse (BVE) server as root or use the su or sudo commands to obtain root permissions.
2. Execute the following commands:

cd <TRAVERSE_HOME>/

/etc/traverse.init stop

utils/databaseUtil.pl --action export --file /tmp/provdb.xml

This stops the Traverse components, and then creates a file named provdb.xml which you can edit to reset the password.

1. Search for the superuser entry and remove the entire des prefix along with the encrypted password. Then, enter a cleartext password (with no des prefix).

<loginName code="Ansi" lang="en">superuser</loginName>

[...]

<password code="Ansi" lang="en">{des}xyzabc</password>

replace with:

<password code="Ansi" lang="en">password</password>

1. Import the file back into the database:

utils/databaseUtil.pl --action import --file /tmp/provdb.xml

1. Enter y to replace the existing database.
2. Restart Traverse.