Replace the WebSphere Portal administrator user ID

Replace the WebSphere Portal administrator user ID

If we are using IBM WCM within a clustered environment, complete these steps on every node in the cluster. If WCM is not configured, complete these steps only on the primary node.

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

2. Replace the old WebSphere Portal administrative user with the new user:

    
   cd WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine
   ./ConfigEngine.sh wp-change-portal-admin-user  \
                     -DWasPassword=foo  \
                     -DnewAdminId=newadminid  \
                     -DnewAdminPw=newpassword  \
                     -DnewAdminGroupId=newadmingroupid 
   

   -DnewAdminGroupId is required only if you plan to replace the old administrative group ID.

   The wp-change-portal-admin-user task verifies the user against a running server instance. If the server is stopped, to skip the validation...

   -Dskip.ldap.validation=true

3. Stop and restart all required servers.

4. Change the information stored in the SearchAdminUser alias. From the WAS admin console, go to...
   Security | Global security | Authentication | Java Authentication and Authorization Service | J2C authentication data | SearchAdminUser alias | Edit

   ...and set the user ID and/or password to match your WebSphere Portal administrator information.

5. Synchronize the nodes...
   System Administration | Nodes | nodes | Full Resynchronize

6. If we use an external security manager such as Tivoli Access Manager, manually remove the old administrator user ID from the external security manager.

7. If you set the default portal administrator user ID to be used as the crawler user ID for Portal Search, adapt that crawler user ID accordingly.

Parent: Update user ID and passwords
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