As part of the 3.17.0 release, we’ve made a few changes to help administrators of new Nexus Repository Manager instances start out on the right foot. New instances will now generate a random password and save it to the data (e.g. sonatype-work/nexus3) directory, which is a significant change. This …

Hi, i am trying to deploy the Nexus 3.19 release by using the docker image. post deployment i want to update the admin password programatically. here you mentioned that we can update the admin password by using the rest API post installation. i searched the web, but couldn’t found any example. it…

You will be able to find further documentation in the API documentation (found in the Administration section under System ) of your Nexus Repository Manager instance however I think you can achieve what you want by sending a PUT request to http://localhost:8081/service/rest/beta/security/users/…

Hi, is it possible set initial password instead of generated random password. I am starting nexus server as docker container. To automate setup process I should be able to set an initial password by starting the container. Or there is another way of doing this automation ? Thank you!

Default Setting Changes in NXRM 3.17.0 Release

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rseddon (Rich Seddon) April 30, 2020, 3:19pm 5

You can also set the “nexus.security.randompassword=false” java system property, that will cause the default admin password to be “admin123”.

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Default Setting Changes in NXRM 3.17.0 Release

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