Send a new password by email (with an SMTP protocol) - 8.0

Talend Administration Center User Guide
Version
8.0
Language
English
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Module
Talend Administration Center
Content
Administration and Monitoring

About this task

If you forgot your connection password to Talend Administration Center, you can perform one of the following operations to send an email holding a link to a password resetting form:

  • click the Forgot your password? button. To activate this option and display the button, you have to activate an SMTP protocol in the Configuration page of Talend Administration Center. For more information on how to configure the SMTP protocol, see Setting up an SMTP protocol. If this Forgot your password? button does not display even though you activated SMTP, it can mean that this option has not been activated at installation time. In this case, contact your Administrator who will be able to enable it from the configuration.properties file.
  • use the resetPassword the MetaServlet application For more information on MetaServlet, see Non-GUI operation in metaServlet.

Procedure

  1. In the Login window, click Forgot your password?.

    Example

    An informative message is displayed on the Login window and the email with the new password is sent to the email address specified in the Login field.
  2. With this new sent password, log in to Talend Administration Center again and define a new customized password in the Users page.
    For more information about the Users page, see Changing user passwords.