Yes, I admit it. I forgot the administrator password on my local dev copy of ColdFusion 8. So I figured I'd put the steps to recover it here on the blog for future reference.

• Stop the "ColdFusion MX Application Server" Service
• Open the "neo-security.xml" file contained at %CFMXInstallRoot%\lib
• Find the line: " <var name='admin.security.enabled'><boolean value='true'/></var>" and change the true to false, then save the file
• Restart the "ColdFusion MX Application Server" Service
• Go to the ColdFusion Administrator again and set a password

The above bit of instruction was found at devnulled.com

To Start/Stop ColdFusion manual open a Terminal app and type in Either: sudo /Applications/ColdFuions8/bin/coldfusion start - or - sudo /Applications/ColdFusion8/bin/coldfusion stop

That piece of help was found at renaum.com

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