How to start YouTrack (as Win Service) in restore root password mode?

Permanently deleted user

Created November 13, 2013 16:13

I'm running YouTrack as a Windows Service, but I need to reset/restore the root password.

I have tried :

Editing the service properties to include Startup Parameters :

    -Djetbrains.youtrack.overrideRootPassword=true

    -Djetbrains.youtrack.overrideRootPassword=r00t

But neither works, I also tried the old flag for doing this, -Djetbrains.charisma.restoreRootPassword=true

here is a screen shot of how I am trying to pass parameters to the service.  Is this the correct place for this?  Please let me know the best way to go to reset root for YouTrack served on Windows as a service.

2 comments

Andrey Tigay

Created November 18, 2013 14:27

Hello Stephen,

You're a bit wrong with the place for providing parameters.
Please, take a look at this guide. You can call Tomcat via the command line as follows:


tomcat6w.exe //ES//YouTrack

or under Program files\YouTrack\bin\tomcat6w.exe manually.

Let me know, if need any further assistance on this.

Permanently deleted user

Created November 19, 2013 17:55

Thanks Andrey, the piece I was missing there was using the

-Djetbrains.charisma.restoreRootPassword=true

argument on the Java tab in the TomCat service launcher.

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