How can Admin change a user password

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Balaji Krish (1.8k●1●2) | answered Feb 06 '09, 5:08 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER

Looks like the xml was not shown in the forum. Let me try again.

The password info in tomcat-users.xml will be encrypted. The format of tomcat-users.xml is

&lt;xml&gt;

&lt;tomcat&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;user&gt;

  &lt;user&gt;

&lt;/tomcat&gt;

Since the password field is encrypted, you should not edit the tomcat-users.xml with the new password. Instead, do the following to change the password. Lets say for example, you wish to reset the password for user1. create a new tomcat-users.xml file with user1 information,

&lt;xml&gt;

&lt;tomcat&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;role&gt;

  &lt;user&gt;

&lt;/tomcat&gt;

and use repotools -convertTomcatUsers command to convert the new tomcat-users.xml file you created. The output tomcat-users.xml file would encrypt the password value. Copy that password value and paste it in the orifinal tomcat-users.xml.

Restarting the server will pick up the new password.

--- Balaji

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Balaji Krish (1.8k●1●2) | answered Feb 06 '09, 5:10 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER

Looks like the xml was not shown in the forum. Let me try again.

The password info in tomcat-users.xml will be encrypted. The format of tomcat-users.xml is

&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?&gt;

&lt;tomcat-users&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzDWAdmins&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzGuests&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;manager&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzUsers&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzAdmins&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;user username=&quot;ADMIN&quot; password=&quot;b521caa6e1db8&quot; roles=&quot;JazzUsers,JazzAdmins,manager&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;user username=&quot;User1&quot; password=&quot;cvhjdfhdjhfdjhfdjhfdfd123&quot; roles=&quot;JazzUsers&quot;/&gt;

&lt;/tomcat-users&gt;

Since the password field is encrypted, you should not edit the tomcat-users.xml with the new password. Instead, do the following to change the password. Lets say for example, you wish to reset the password for user1. create a new tomcat-users.xml file with user1 information,

&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?&gt;

&lt;tomcat-users&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzDWAdmins&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzGuests&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;manager&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzUsers&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;role rolename=&quot;JazzAdmins&quot;/&gt;

  &lt;user username=&quot;User1&quot; password=&quot;initpass&quot; roles=&quot;JazzUsers&quot;/&gt;

&lt;/tomcat-users&gt;

and use repotools -convertTomcatUsers command to convert the new tomcat-users.xml file you created. The output tomcat-users.xml file would encrypt the password value. Copy that password value and paste it in the orifinal tomcat-users.xml.

Restarting the server will pick up the new password.

--- Balaji

0	permanent link Frank Schophuizen (193●2●32●26) \| answered Feb 05 '09, 1:18 a.m. Anyone any ideas how Admin can reset the password if notifications are disabled. Frank.

0	permanent link Anuerin Diaz (411●25●17) \| answered Feb 05 '09, 1:32 a.m. Short of messing around with the database, this looks like an enhancement request. :( ciao!

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Matt Lavin (2.7k●2) | answered Feb 05 '09, 8:48 a.m.
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER

Assuming you are using Tomcat, you can shutdown the server, and hand
edit the tomcat-users.xml file in the tomcat/conf directory. I'm not
exactly sure about the format, but I think there is some documentation
on the Tomcat website.

-
Matt Lavin
Jazz Server Team

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 06:37 +0000, ramfree17 wrote:

Short of messing around with the database, this looks like an
enhancement request. :(

ciao!

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Balaji Krish (1.8k●1●2) | answered Feb 06 '09, 5:05 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER

The password info in tomcat-users.xml will be encrypted. The format of tomcat-users.xml is

<xml>
<tomcat>
<role>
<role>
<role>
<role>
<role>
<user>
<user>
</tomcat>

Since the password field is encrypted, you should not edit the tomcat-users.xml with the new password. Instead, do the following to change the password. Lets say for example, you wish to reset the password for user1. create a new tomcat-users.xml file with user1 information,

<xml>
<tomcat>
<role>
<role>
<role>
<role>
<role>
<user>
</tomcat>

and use repotools -convertTomcatUsers command to convert the new tomcat-users.xml file you created. The output tomcat-users.xml file would encrypt the password value. Copy that password value and paste it in the orifinal tomcat-users.xml.

Restarting the server will pick up the new password.

--- Balaji

Assuming you are using Tomcat, you can shutdown the server, and hand
edit the tomcat-users.xml file in the tomcat/conf directory. I'm not
exactly sure about the format, but I think there is some documentation
on the Tomcat website.

-
Matt Lavin
Jazz Server Team

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 06:37 +0000, ramfree17 wrote:

Short of messing around with the database, this looks like an
enhancement request. :(

ciao!

0	permanent link Frank Schophuizen (193●2●32●26) \| answered Feb 07 '09, 5:38 a.m. Thanks for the workaround. Wouldn't is be much easier to extend the admin UI to set the password? Frank.

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