Password too short problem

[Former Member]

My installation is aborted almost immediatly.

I receive a message saying that my password for j2eadm is too short. This is a standard Windows XP message informing that the password is not within my company's standards.

Since I have not entered any user name or password, I can only assume that the installation tries to create a user on its own with a "simple" password.

<b>Anyone know where is the installation file which controls the passwords?</b>

[OliverStiefbold · Accepted solution]

right the pw is admin. Predefined - to keep it simple.

And to have a predified password for the examples contained.

We change this maybe in the next version. In meantin you must use the slim edition.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

In other way, you are saying that there is no way to configure the password to be something other than admin.

This means that the only way I can install is to go to my IT department and beg for mercy...

[OliverStiefbold · Accepted solution]

yep. Or take the slim edition. .

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Can I add other SAP modules on top of slim edition? For example: EP, KM. I couldn't install Java Edition due to the company restriction about the password length. I still don't understand why installer has to use "admin" for the default password? It's not user friendly design. I like the way in SP9 installer, I really hope they can make change on this.

Justin

[OliverStiefbold · Accepted solution]

okok. we will make a new installer.

The cause why we fixed the password in the java edition is, that predefined samples are ready to run. This will then no longer be possible - you will have to do post-installation steps.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I'm having the same problem...any update on that new installer?

[stephenjohannes · Accepted solution]

Is there anyway also to evaluate the CAF 1.0 and Guided Procedures 2.0 without the sneak preview edition? My company is already an SAP customer, so is there any type of downloads on service.sap.com that would be available for those products? I can also wait for a new installer that doesn't use the password.

Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if we should just contact our sales representative instead.

Thank you,

Stephen

[OliverStiefbold · Accepted solution]

> Is there anyway also to evaluate the CAF 1.0 and

> Guided Procedures 2.0 without the sneak preview

> edition?

No, except you wait for official release date. Thats a benefit of "Sneak Preview" that we can look at things in beta-status.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

there is a way for changing the standard password to meet your security policy. simply do the following:

- create the windows users "j2eadm" and "SAPServiceJ2E" manually in windows control panel. Assign passwords that match your security policy.

- the SAP installer now detects that the users already exist with another password than "admin". the installer now asks for the password the users already have. then, the installation should continue...

best regards,

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks. This solved the problem rather elegantly. Now I have a different one... I'll post another message

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Yaron

Have u Solved Password Policy error

can u check my forum and response to that

/thread/145079 [original link is broken]

regards

Krishna

[Former Member]

Hi michiel / Yaron ,

I am facing the same situation here . I have created two users namely j2eadm and SAPServiceJ2E manually through window panel and assigned the passwords , admin.123 and admin.234 resp ( as per my company policy ) . Then the installer asked for the password for the above users . I have given as what I have created . Now an error as below and installer exited abruptly .

ERROR 2005-07-08 20:34:01

FJS-00003 TypeError: webas has no properties (in script InstallationScript_59, line 14070: ???)

ERROR 2005-07-08 20:34:01

FJS-00003 TypeError: webas has no properties (in script InstallationScript_59, line 14070: ???)

WARNING 2005-07-08 20:34:01

The step askOSUserParameterWindows with step key J2EE_SystemCopy_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|WebAS|640|0|J2EE_SystemCopy|ind|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|J2EE_EngineEnterpriseDialogs|ind|ind|ind|WebAS|630|0|askOSUserParameterWindows was executed with status ERROR.

I am realy sad about this situation . Could anybody give me a solution .Thanks

Aneez

[Former Member]

Aneez,

Try reinstalling with out the password restrictions

you should be able to get it through smoothly

subbu

[Former Member]

Hello All,

I have gotten to the same point. We have domain password restrictions that require a minimum of 8 characters for password. So, it is not possible to reinstall without the password restrictions.

I have created the 2 initial accounts with password: qw123456. I receive the same error Aneez receives.

It is really frustrating that in this age of ever increasing security policies, SAP is not able to adapt. Can we get some feedback from SAP on this issue?

Kind regards,

Rich

[Former Member]

I also have the same problem with the lite version. Can anyone help me?

doesn't work : admin, same as userid, more then 14 charaters

[Former Member]

You can either try Slim Edition or older version apply for the SP11/12 patches.

You can search for the SP here

http://service.sap.com/patches

Entry by Application Group -> Support Packages and Patchese -> SAP NetWeaver -> SAP NetWeaver components ( < SAP NW 04 )-> SAP WEB AS -> SAP WEB AS 6.40 -> SAP J2EE ENGINE 6.40

[Former Member]

If your pc is not protected against changes of security settings, you might be able to change the password policy:

1) Within Windows go to Start --> Control Panel

2) Select Administrative Tools

3) Select Local Security Policy

4) Browse to the folder 'Account Policies --> Password Policy'.

5) Change the 'Minimum password length' to 5.

For me this solved the problem.

Kind regards,

Michiel van Rhoon

[Former Member]

IT Guys are smarter than that. When a corporate policy is set for passwords, setting the policy for a PC is disabled.