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Change SDM password

sid-desh — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:38:10 GMT

Hi All,

I have lost my sdm password and i want to change it now. I have the administrator password for my J2EE engine however i cannot connect to the SDM server from the Remote GUI client.

Can anyone help me in this regard

Thanks

Sidharth

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:22:42 GMT

Hello Siddarth,

Please take a look at the following file. There is a field called hashed password and you can rehash it.

C:/usr/sap/J2E/JC00/SDM/program/config/sdmrepository.sdc

Hope that helps

Regards

Abdul

Re: Change SDM password

sid-desh — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:36:01 GMT

Hi Abdul,

By rehashing of password you mean just type in a new one there and restart the J2EE server or something else.

Thanks for the help.

Regards

Sidharth

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:45:27 GMT

Hi Siddharth,

try to put yPLDEBe3oOb6H2mmjJ0zztOgw/A in that field. This is the hash for the password being sdm.

Hope that helps

Regards

Abdul

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:55:53 GMT

I would actually suggest you to change the password using command line

changepassword command

sdm changepassword sdmhome=<...> newpassword=<...> [password=<...>]

where

newpassword: New password

password: Old password. Since 6.30 SP5, this parameter has been set optional so that the password can be changed without reference to its current value. If this parameter is specified, its value will be ignored.

Regards

Abdul

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:51:04 GMT

Abdul,

What is the "sdmhome" parm? I am not sure what value to put in there.

Thanks!

David

Re: Change SDM password

juergen_kremp — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:50:58 GMT

Hi,

set to program directory of SDM.

Example from my Windows based engine:

C:\usr\sap\JKS\JC00\SDM\program>sdm changepassword "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/JKS/JC00/SDM/program" "newpassword=abc123"

Kind regards,

Juergen Kremp

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:52:20 GMT

Siddarth,

I had this problem too and was finally able to fix it. The hashed value for "sdm" is actually "yPLDEBe3oOb6H2mmjJ0zztOgw/A="

David

Re: Change SDM password

yonko_yonchev — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:03:11 GMT

Hello everyone,

please refer to

for a discussion on changing the SDM password.

Regards,

Yonko

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:39:21 GMT

Hi,

from what I've found on SDN, no single post covered all steps necessary to change the SDM password. So I will sum my experience up and share it with you :

Open the command line.

Go to the SDM\program directory.

Execute :

sdm jstartup "mode=standalone" "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/<SID>/<Instance>/SDM/program"

Wait for a confirmation that your setting was saved.

Execute:

sdm changepassword "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/<SID>/<Instance>/SDM/program" "newpassword=abc123"

Again wait for a positive confirmation.

Execute :

sdm jstartup "mode=integrated" "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/<SID>/<Instance>/SDM/program"

Just to make sure it's set back to integrated.

NOTICE the "/" instead of the "\" in the sdmhome path !

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:05:38 GMT

hi philipp koock,

thank for your message but when i typed in , the command to make it standalone i got an syntax error saying return code :12 so i did not run the command to change the password .

i am new to nwd and trying to work with it

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:12:31 GMT

hi david ,

this helped me

Re: Change SDM password

RaminS — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:30:56 GMT

Thanks Philip. That worked perfectly.

SDM is nothing but a big pain in the butt!

Message was edited by: Ramin Shafai

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:02:25 GMT

From SAP Note 701654:

Symptom

After changing the administrator user's password on the J2EE Engine, deployment aborts with the error message:

ERROR: Cannot connect to Host: [...] with UserName: [...]

Check your Login Info.

Exception is:

com.sap.engine.services.jndi.persistent.exceptions. NoPermissionException

Exception during getInitialContext operation.

Wrong security principles/credentials

[Root exception is ...: User not authorized.]

Note: If the error message contains the following text, then the error is due to a connection problem and not the changed Administrator's password.

Cannot create new RemoteLoginContext instance

In this case, check the host name, port number and availability of the J2EE Engine.

Reason and Prerequisites

The administrator user's password is not only stored in the active user store, but also in secure storage in the file system so that certain applications such as the Software Deployment Manager (SDM) can use it to connect to the J2EE Engine.

Therefore, when you change the administrator user's password in the user store, you must also update the entry in secure storage in the file system. Otherwise, the SDM attempts to connect to the J2EE Engine using the old password and you receive the error message mentioned above.

Solution

Use the Config Tool to change the entry in secure storage as follows:

1. Start the Config Tool.

(Execute <SAPj2eeEngine_install_dir> \configtool\configtool.bat.)

2. Select the secure store node.

The configuration for the secure storage in the file system appears.

3. Select the admin/password/<SID> entry.

4. Enter the administrator user's new password in the "Value" field and choose "Add".

5. Choose "File" --> "Apply" to save the data.

Note: Contrary to the message that appears, you do not need to restart the server or cluster for this change to take effect.

6. Finally restart SDM server.

Result

The administrator user's password is changed in secure storage and you can deploy the application using the SDM.

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:36:32 GMT

But if the server installed on remote computer.

The command line

with the above commands to change the sdm password cannnot be run

It gives error ..

any solution after telnetting the server at the message port

Is there any way to change it from visual composer or management console.

regards,

swathi rao

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:18:26 GMT

Thanks Philipp Koock.

Re: Change SDM password

alfonso — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:44:59 GMT

Letter perfect, many thanks !

Re: Change SDM password

Benny — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:19:39 GMT

There is not.

Regards,

Benny

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:09:36 GMT

Philipp,

Thanks for putting this out here. I worked like charm!

Rex L. Farris

Re: Change SDM password

Former Member — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:00:33 GMT

> Hi,

> from what I've found on SDN, no single post covered

> all steps necessary to change the SDM password. So I

> will sum my experience up and share it with you :

> Open the command line.

> Go to the SDM\program directory.

> Execute :

> sdm jstartup "mode=standalone"

> "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/<SID>/<Instance>/SDM/program"

> Wait for a confirmation that your setting was saved.

> Execute:

> sdm changepassword

> "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/<SID>/<Instance>/SDM/program"

> "newpassword=abc123"

> Again wait for a positive confirmation.

> Execute :

> sdm jstartup "mode=integrated"

> "sdmhome=C:/usr/sap/<SID>/<Instance>/SDM/program"

> Just to make sure it's set back to integrated.

> NOTICE the "/" instead of the "\" in the sdmhome path

> !

Thank you Phillip! This works just fine.

Since I was working on a windows server I went to the SDM home in the cmd. prompt, thus being able to leave out the path parameters.

This gives me 3 short cmd's.:

1) sdm jstartup "mode=standalone"

2) sdm changepassword "newpassword=abc123"

3) sdm jstartup "mode=integrated"

Thanks again, this was very helpfull!

Best Regards Peter Egmose Hansen