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1. Open the the file neo-security.xml. This is in the lib directory of you ColdFusion MX install, so for Windows C:\CFusionMX\lib\ and on UNIX /opt/coldfusionmx/lib. This also applies for CF7 and CF8 on both windows and linux. The file directory may vary so you will have do do a search for the neo-security.xml file.
2. Change the admin.security.enabled variable to false.Before:

   <var name='admin.security.enabled'>
   		<boolean value='true'/>
   	</var>

   After:

   <var name='admin.security.enabled'>
   		<boolean value='false'/>
   	</var>

3. Restart the ColdFusion process.
4. Change the password immediatly otherwise you will leave the administrator unprotected.

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