title: Coldfusion 11 (Multi-instance) - Administrator password reset not working
body: <p>I'm trying to reset the CFAdmin password on a CF11 Enterprise server that has <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/configuring-administering/using-multiple-server-instances.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">multiple CF instances running on the same server</a>.  The admin password on one of the instances is unknown, so we're trying to recover/change to a known password.</p>
  
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  <li>I've tried using the <a href="http://coldfusion-tip.blogspot.com/2014/02/reset-coldfusion-admin-password.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">passwordreset.bat provided by Adobe</a>, but after restarting the instance with lost admin password, that didn't  work.</li>
  <li>I also tried <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/forgotten-password-cannot-log-coldfusion.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">disabling the password all together to access the admin console per adobe</a>.  This gets me into the admin console temporarily, but I'm not able to actually <em>change</em> the password since I don't know the old password.  Leaving the old PW blank, fails too.  This is not a viable long-term option, we must have a password.</li>
  <li>I even tried <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3833645/coldfusion-admin-login-and-password-recovery">editing the password.properties</a> file to type a password and set encryption=false, but that didn't work either.</li>
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  <p>I think I've exhausted all the standard ways to reset the password to no avail.  Is there something else that I should do because it's a multi-instance setup?  Is there some way to point it to the specific instance I want to change?</p>