Steps to reproduce:
- Stop Crowd
- Enable Recovery mode (by setting the atlassian.recovery.password)
- Start Crowd
- Try to login using recovery_admin user and credentials from the atlassian.recovery.password system property
Result
Login error
There is no workaround at this point
Here is documentation on the process, which works in versions 3.5.2, 3.6.2, 3.7.1 and greater: https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowdkb/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-using-system-properties-998644535.html