Changing system and database passwords for users

For security purposes, you can change a system password and also change their database password to synchronize with the new system password. Authorized users can change their own passwords.

Before you begin

When you use an application server for authentication, the directory manages user passwords.

About this task

Oracle and SQL server only: Use Set Password to change the database password. If you change a database password to match a system password, the password must satisfy the requirements of both passwords. For example, if you use the Oracle database platform, the password must meet the special character requirements that Oracle supports.

Procedure

  1. In the Users application, access the user whose password you want to change.
  2. Click Set Password.
  3. In the New Password section, generate a random password or specify a password.
  4. To send an Email message with the password to the user, select the Email Password to User check box. This check box is read-only and selected when the Always Email Generated Passwords to Users (Never Display on Screen) check box in the Security Controls window is selected. This check box is editable when the Allow Generated Passwords to Be Displayed on Screen option in the Security Controls window is selected.
  5. To have the user be able to change their password upon initial login, select the Password Should Expire After First Login check box.
  6. To synchronize this password with a database password, select the Also Change Database Password to This Password check box. The check box is read-only when the user ID does not have a database user ID. The check box is editable when the user ID has a database user ID that was created in the system.
  7. Click OK.

What to do next

If you change a password for a default user (such as a system user for self-registration), then you also must change the associated property. These properties include mxe.adminPasswd and mxe.system.regpassword. You use the System Properties application to change these properties.


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