Following Google’s release of a reference implementation of the Wave protocol in Java form, I thought I’d give it a try, but installing Openfire, the XMPP-based backend, turned out to be the biggest challenge. Using the default installation, I could not log in to the admin console page. Many other people seem to have this same problem, and I could not find a solution online. I found the problem or rather, a workaround.
Short identification of the problem:
- The setup script did not save my admin password.
- The login script will not accept the default password admin, probably because it’s too short.
Short solution:
- Manually change the admin password in the database to something longer like admin! (but hopefully a stronger password than that).
I had tried all kinds of database settings during this ordeal, and at the end I was using SQLite (JDBC driver here), so I just edited the .sqlite3 file with the sqlite3 command line program to fix the password:
sudo sqlite3 /usr/local/openfire/embedded-db/openfire.sqlite3 “UPDATE ofUser SET plainPassword=’admin!’ WHERE username=’admin'”
Problem solved.
Robert Harder, PhD 
SQL error: no such table: ofUser
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Should be “of User” with the space..
Robert, can you give more detail as to how you were able to use the sqlite driver?
Nevermind, got it. Put the sqlite jdbc driver into the /lib folder, and have “org.sqlite.JDBC” as the connection type and “jdbc:sqlite:test.db” as the url
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