Set user password?

[Uffe]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if there's a way to set a user's password through the API? I can't find an API call to do it, and the passwords are encrypted when stored in t_secusers.

Cheers,

/Uffe

[Stefan Bolleininger]

You can set the password through the normal EA-Security

Click "Project->Security->Manage Users", selct the user  and use the "Change Password"

Of course you need the security priviledges to do this.

[qwerty]

Why would you set the password via API? What's your use case?

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[Uffe]

I have a large number of users to be imported, and need to set a default password so users can log in after the (DBMS) repository has been transferred to an .EAP.

Or do users get assigned a default password I am unaware of? I haven't tested this in 9.0, but if I remember correctly, you have to set a password explicitly if you want to be able to log into the project after you've taken an .EAP off-line (no AD connection).

[qwerty]

Hmm. I haven't even found a way to create a user via the API. However, you can set the password to null (or blank) in t_secuser. In that case the user can log on with no password. Which is kind of the same as having a default password.

Maybe you can try setting a password and use the crypt value for someone else and see whether the logon works.

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[Geert Bellekens]

In fact I can confirm that it works.
Two users with the same password have the same hash in the t_secuser.Password table.
So and update/insert statement passed on to Repository.Execute() should do the trick.

Geert