Changing a password for platform user

The appliance administrator can change a password of any user from ibmapadmin OS group and ibmapusers OS group, by using the ap_ldap_user_mod.pl utility.

About this task

Note that the password policy and complexity rules are not applicable when using utility ap_ldap_user_mod.pl to change the password.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the appliance as apuser or any equivalent that is a member of ibmapadmin OS group.
  2. Run ap_ldap_user_mod.pl -p <password> <username> to change password for a user. 
    ap_ldap_user_mod.pl -p Netezza26 prasad
User 'prasad' modified.

Results

User password is changed.