How it works...

With Jira's internal user directory, all user and group data is stored in the Jira database. The value 44 is the ID of the Jira System Administrator global permission.

If you do not know which groups or users are granted the Jira System Administrator global permission, you will first have to find this information using steps 4 and 5. Otherwise, you can skip to step 6 in order to reset the password.

Jira's user password is stored in the cwd_user table. As Jira only stores the hash value of the password, we changed the user's admin password hash to uQieO/1CGMUIXXftw3ynrsaYLShI+GTcPS4LdUGWbIusFvHPfUzD7CZvms6yMMvA8I7FViHVEqr6Mj4pCLKAFQ==, which is the UTF-8-encoded hash value of sphere.