title: How to unlock a locked admin user in JFrog Artifactory?
body: <p>I installed JFrog Artifactory and did the setup and also enabled the "Lock user after n failed logins".</p>
  
  <p>A few days later now I tried to log in with the admin user and failed 5 times. Just forgot the password for a sec and tried too often, not thinking about the consequences.</p>
  
  <p>Now I get this message</p>
  
  <pre><code>User admin is Locked.
  Contact System Administrator to Unlock The Account.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and can't log in as admin anymore which means I cannot unlock the admin account at all... ¯_(ツ)_/¯</p>
  
  <p>I already followed the FAQ "Recreating the Default Admin User" (<a href="https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Managing+Users#ManagingUsers-RecreatingtheDefaultAdminUser" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Managing+Users#ManagingUsers-RecreatingtheDefaultAdminUser</a>) but I cannot confirm that the password reset worked – the admin account is still locked.</p>
  
  <p>I didn't set up a database for Artifactory yet, just using the plain debian package on Ubuntu on the file system. So the lock has to be stored anywhere, right?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> There is no other Admin user on the system.</p>