Change Neo4j password via curl
April 29, 2015
Description
I’m new to the Neo4j world, but I’ve been wanting to work with a graph database, and Neo4j is a good fit for a current project, so I decided to dive in. It seems there have been numerous changes recently to the Neo4j API, and there is a lot of wrong/outdated information out there. The official docs, however, are very useful. Anyways, here’s a quick bit on how to change your password via curl if you make the same mistake I did, and set your password up with certain special characters that can cause issues.
Command to Change Password
1 curl -H "Content-Type: application/json"\
2 -H "Authorization: Basic `echo -n 'USERNAME:OLDPASSWORD' | base64`"\
3 -X POST -d '{"password":"NEWPASSWORD"}'\
4 -I http://localhost:7474/user/neo4j/passwordExplanation
The command above creates a base64 encoding of: “USERNAME:OLDPASSWORD”, and adds it to the basic authorization header. We then post json data with the requested new password. If everything goes according to plan, you’ll be greated with an “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” response code.