What is the default password in Sitecore 9?

Question

Recently I installed Sitecore 9.0 version in my system and after successful installation I tried with Sitecore default credentials (admin/b) but it was not working.

But I remember that during Sitecore training the tutor taught me that the default one is "admin/b"

This doesn't seem to work on Sitecore 9.

Is there any way to configure the password during installation?

Answer 1

When installing Sitecore 9 (using SIF) you execute a powershell script called XP0-SingleDeveloper.ps1 (at least for installing a Single On Premises instance). In this file you should find a line that looks like this:

$SitecoreAdminPassword = "SIF-Default"

That line determines the password used for the admin user. Change this to whatever you want, and after the installation is completed you can log on as admin using that password (you can even set the password to "b" if you want to).

As per the installation documentation:

[...] edit the XP0-SingleDeveloper.ps1 script and update each line with the settings that are appropriate for your environment. One of the settings that you must edit is SitecoreAdminPassword.

If you do not specify the Sitecore administrator password in the script and leave the example value "SIF-Default" unchanged, a random password is generated for you. This password is written to the XP0-SingleDeveloper.log file – search for Sitecore Admin Password – and displayed when the sitecore-xp0.json file has been processed

Answer 2

There is a SetSitecoreAdminPassword.sql file is available in installation zip file. This sql script talks about admin password generation. Please check the below

declare @ApplicationName nvarchar(256) = 'sitecore' declare @UserName nvarchar(256) = 'sitecore\admin' declare @Password nvarchar(128) = 'PlaceHolderForPassword' declare @HashAlgorithm nvarchar(10) = 'SHA1' declare @PasswordFormat int = 1 -- Hashed declare @CurrentTimeUtc datetime = SYSUTCDATETIME() declare @Salt varbinary(16) = 0x declare @HashedPassword varbinary(20) declare @EncodedHash nvarchar(128) declare @EncodedSalt nvarchar(128)

-- Generate random salt while len(@Salt) < 16 begin set @Salt = (@Salt + cast(cast(floor(rand() * 256) as tinyint) as binary(1))) end

-- Hash password set @HashedPassword = HASHBYTES(@HashAlgorithm, @Salt + cast(@Password as varbinary(128)));

-- Convert hash and salt to BASE64 select @EncodedHash = cast(N'' as xml).value( 'xs:base64Binary(xs:hexBinary(sql:column("bin")))' , 'varchar(max)' ) from (select @HashedPassword as [bin] ) T

select @EncodedSalt = cast(N'' as xml).value( 'xs:base64Binary(xs:hexBinary(sql:column("bin")))' , 'VARCHAR(MAX)' ) from (select @Salt as [bin] ) T