Management of primary administrator password for an instance

To authenticate against an instance and to access configuration and all directory data, you must create and configure a primary administrator password for an instance.

The administrator password is case-sensitive. You must not use Double byte character set (DBCS) characters in the password since it is not supported. You must save the administrator password for future reference.

You can use Configuration Tool or the command-line utility, idsdnpw, to configure the primary administrator password. To configure the administrator password, you must stop the ibmslapd process that is associated with the instance.

If you enable the administration password policy, the primary administrator password must conform to the administration password policy requirements. For information about the password policy, see Administering section of the IBM® Security Verify Directory documentation.