reset-admin-password

This command is used to reset the built-in Couchbase Server Administrator password. There is only one built-in Administrator account, which is managed separately from the internal and external Administrator users. External and Internal Administrator accounts can be managed using the user-manage command.

The reset-admin-password command must be run locally on a node that is part of the cluster (i.e. must connect to the host the command is run on). This is required as reset-admin-password relies on a local authentication token, which is used to authenticate with the server and change the password. As a result, the command does not require credentials to be passed.

When specifying a host for the couchbase-cli command the following formats are expected:

It is recommended to use the couchbase://<addr> format for standard installations. The other two formats allow an option to take a port number which is needed for non-default installations where the admin port has been set up on a port other that 8091.

To change the administrator password to new_pwd run the following command:

To change the administrator password to a randomly generated value, run the following command. The new password will be printed to stdout if the password is successfully changed:

setting-ldap, user-manage

Part of the couchbase-cli suite