You can reset the password for the default
administrative user that was created automatically by the installation
program. Depending on the password policy of your company,
you might be required to reset this password regularly.
Tip: The password was set when you ran the installation
program, and you do not need to reset the password to perform web
application server administrative tasks.
About this task
The embedded web application server that hosts the web console
normally requires minimal administration. You might be required to
renew or import SSL certificates for the web console by running the
scripts that are provided with your product installation. When running
these scripts you must specify the user ID of the default administrative
user that is created locally when you install the product. The default
administrative user is separate from the other administrative users
that are used with the product, such as database administrators.
Procedure
To reset the password for the default administrative
user:
- Stop Data Studio web console.
- On Linux and UNIX: From the installation directory, run the
command stop.sh.
- On Windows: From the
Start menu, click .
- Encrypt the new password by running this command from the
installation directory.
- On Linux and UNIX: wlp/bin/securityUtility encode new_password
- On Windows:wlp/bin/securityUtility.bat
encode new_password
Where new_password is the updated password.
The encrypted password is printed to the screen.
- Edit the Config/dswebserver.properties file.
Change the value of the admin.password field to
the encrypted password.
- Start the Data Studio web console.
- On Linux and UNIX: From the installation directory, run the
command start.sh.
- On Windows: From the
Start menu, click .
Results
The password for the user ID of the default administrative
user is updated.