Passwords for system users
After installing IBM Security Identity Manager, three system users are defined. These system users enable IBM Security Identity Manager to communicate with the database and the directory server. By default, the following systems users are defined:
- itimuser
- ISIM system user.
The system user is created manually before ISIM installation program was run.
- db2admin or db2inst1
- DB2 system users that are created by the DB2 installation program. If we installed DB2 on a Windows system, the user name is db2admin. If we installed DB2 on a Linux system, the user name is db2inst1.
- ldapdb2
- LDAP system user.
Initially, the db2admin or db2inst1 user is created by the DB2 installation process with a password that is set to never expire. However, the password for the ldapdb2 user and itimuser users can expire, based on the password policy of the system. If the passwords for these users expire, or are changed, we must reconfigure IBM Security Identity Manager and its associated middleware to use the new password values.
- Change the itimuser user password
- Change the db2admin user password for Windows
- Change the ldapdb2 user password
Parent topic: Password administration