I installed JFrog Artifactory and did the setup and also enabled the "Lock user after n failed logins".
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.
Now I get this message
User admin is Locked.
Contact System Administrator to Unlock The Account.
and can't log in as admin anymore which means I cannot unlock the admin account at all... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I already followed the FAQ "Recreating the Default Admin User" (https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Managing+Users#ManagingUsers-RecreatingtheDefaultAdminUser) but I cannot confirm that the password reset worked – the admin account is still locked.
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?
Update: There is no other Admin user on the system.
In case you have a backup, another option for recovery is creating a new setup of Artifactory and populating it from the latest backup.