Setting Admin Password with a Recipe

For security reasons, SAP Commerce Cloud comes with no default password for the Administrator user. You can set an initial admin password on the command line when installing using a recipe.

You can set the initial administrator password on the command line during build or initialization of a recipe, without having to edit the build.gradle file, by adding the following to both the install and initialize steps of the recipe:

You will see this in the procedure that follows in Using the Easy Installer Recipes

Be sure to change the password to something more secure in Backoffice after the system initializes to protect it against access by unauthorized users.