Replace the WebSphere Portal administrator user ID

If you change security configuration, you may need to replace old WebSphere Portal administrator user ID with a new WebSphere Portal administrator user ID.

To replace the WebSphere Portal administrator user ID:

1. Create a new user in the Manage Users and Groups portlet to replace the current WebSphere Portal administrative user.

2. Run the following task to replace the old WebSphere Portal administrative user with the new user:
   Windows™: ConfigEngine.bat wp-change-portal-admin-user -DWasPassword=foo -DnewAdminId=newadminid -DnewAdminPw=newpassword -DnewAdminGroupId=newadmingroupid from the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine. The -DnewAdminGroupId parameter is required only if you plan to replace the old administrative group ID.
   UNIX™: ./ConfigEngine.sh wp-change-portal-admin-user -DWasPassword=foo -DnewAdminId=newadminid -DnewAdminPw=newpassword -DnewAdminGroupId=newadmingroupid from the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine. The -DnewAdminGroupId parameter is required only if you plan to replace the old administrative group ID.
   i: ConfigEngine.sh wp-change-portal-admin-user -DWasPassword=foo -DnewAdminId=newadminid -DnewAdminPw=newpassword -DnewAdminGroupId=newadmingroupid from the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine. The -DnewAdminGroupId parameter is required only if you plan to replace the old administrative group ID.

   Additional parameter for stopped servers: This task verifies the user against a running server instance. If the server is stopped, add the -Dskip.ldap.validation=true parameter to the task to skip the validation.

3. Verify that the task completed successfully. In a clustered environment, restart the dmgr, the node agent(s), and WebSphere_Portal servers. In a standalone environment, restart the server1 and WebSphere_Portal servers.

4. Complete the following steps to change the information stored in the SearchAdminUser alias:

   1. Log in to the WAS console.

   2. Click Security -> Global security.

   3. Under Authentication, click Java Authentication and Authorization Service -> J2C authentication data.

   4. Edit the SearchAdminUser alias.

   5. Update the user ID and/or password to match WebSphere Portal administrator information.

Notes:

• If you use an external security manager such as TivoliAccess Manager, manually remove the old administrator user ID from the external security manager.

• If you left the default portal administrator user ID to be used as the crawler user ID for Portal Search, you need to adapt that crawler user ID accordingly. For more information see the topic about Manage the content sources of a search collection.

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Update user ID and passwords

  Submitted by Pete R Raleigh on Oct 19, 2011 8:07:20 PM

Re: Replacing the WebSphere Portal administrator user ID

In a Clustered environment, should this task be run on each node within the cluster or just the Primary Node? How do the other servers get synchronised with the new settings, if it's just the Primary Node? What are the precise steps for a Cluster?

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