title: Resetting the ias_admin Password for Oracle 10g Applications Enterprise Manager link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/resetting-the-ias_admin-password-for-oracle-10g-applications-enterprise-manager/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 622 created: 2007/10/09 19:14:17 created_gmt: 2007/10/09 19:14:17 comment_status: open post_name: resetting-the-ias_admin-password-for-oracle-10g-applications-enterprise-manager status: publish post_type: post

Resetting the ias_admin Password for Oracle 10g Applications Enterprise Manager

Oracle 10g Applications Enterprise Manager is a wonderful thing. This is different from the Database Enterprise Manager that so many Oracle DBAs are familiar with. The AEM, with its web based console allows you to quickly see system status and make configuration changes that would take lots of typing on the command line. Things like reconfiguring Oracle SSO so it points to a different Oracle Internet Directory (OID). Problem is that when installing 10g AS, you’re given a choice of setting a unique password for the account that gives you access to the console, ias_admin. This would be OK in an environment where people communicated with each other, but causes all kinds of frustration where there’s zero documentation and silos so high that daylight has trouble getting in. So, here’s how you, as a directory admin (I’m speaking to my people here) can force the password for ias_admin when no one bothered to tell you what it is. Log in as the 10g AS system user for the component you need AEM for (in many cases this will be the same for all components, but in split installs it may not). Make sure you’ve got the environment for that component set (or “sourced”). Then shut down EM by doing an emctl stop iasconsole. Next, go to $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/j2ee/config and back up the jazn-data.xml file. Now open jazn-data.xml in a text editor and go down to where the ias_admin user is defined. It should look something like this:

enterprise-manager
  
    
      ias_admin
     blahblahblahblah

Remove the entire line that begins with ``. Save the changes and issue the following command: emctl set password reset mynewpassword where “mynewpassword” is the new password you want for ias_admin. Finally, restart the iasconsole (`emctl start iasconsole`) and log in as ias_admin with your new password. Oh yes, and be sure to notify those who have a “need to know” that you changed this password!

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