Update admin console password

Each Canvas application has its own admin console. You can access the admin console via the following URL:

• http://<server name>:<Canvas port number>/<application name>/admin

For example to access the admin section of the samples application, the URL is:

• http://localhost:8080/samples/admin

You will be prompted with the following login window:

The default login is:

• Username: Admin
• Password: canvas

You can update the admin console password in the settings page:

• http://<server name>:<Canvas port number>/<Application name>/admin#/setting
• For the samples application: http://localhost:8080/samples/admin#/setting 

The password is encrypted and can be found in CWAS/webapps/<application name>/WEB-INF/config/security.json:

If you are unable to login:

To reset the password, set the password value to blank in the security.json file:

After updating the security.json file, you do not need to restart the Cubewise Application Server.