Changing Your Password

When you first log into AAI with the password that was initially assigned to your user, you need to change your password to something more individual. At other times later, you might want to change your login password for security or other reasons. The steps for doing that are described in this topic based on which kind of user you are, as follows:

Important!

If you are a first administrator user to log into a newly installed instance of AAI, one of your first tasks should be to change the password for the default admin user. The default password is not a secure and strong password and will allow anyone to easily guess and access all parts of AAI without restriction.

Notes:

Depending on how AAI has been set up and what authentication method is used in your company, you might bypass the login dialog, or your passwords might be managed through another mechanism. In these cases, you do not need to reset your password.

If you cannot log in because you forgot your password, contact your AAI administrator to reset your password in your AAI user definition.

Changing Your Login Password

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Use the following steps to change your own login password. These apply to all users, both regular user and admin users.

Prerequisite: You must be logged into AAI with your current password.

  1. Open the File menu on the main menu bar.
  2. Select Change Password.
    The Change Password window appears.
  3. In Old password, type your current password.
  4. In New password and in Confirm password, type the new password.

    Note:

    Passwords are case sensitive.

  5. Click Change Password.

Changing the Default Admin Password

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When you install AAI, two default users are provided as starting users:

  • "admin" with the admin role and the default password "password"

  • "user" with the user role and the default password "password"

Both are in the default JAWS domain. For information, see Domains.

You can change the password for "user" just as you do for any user. However, to change the password for "admin", you need to do an extra configuration step. Use the following steps to successfully change the password for the default AAI "admin" user:

  1. Log into AAI with the following default admin credentials:

    • User: admin

    • Password: password

    • Domain: JAWS

  2. Change the password as for any user. See Changing Your Login Password.

  3. Log out.

  4. Set the hidden parameter called "servicePass" to the new password.

    1. Open the AAI Configuration Tool and go to the Params Tab. For more information, see Configuration Tool - Params Tab.

    2. From the Show drop-down, select hidden named parameters.

    3. Enter servicePass in the box and then click OK.

    4. In the Value column, put the new password for the admin user

    5. Click Apply, then OK.

    Important!

    If you do not update this hidden parameter, AAI will not be able to fully initialize and after 24-hours, data will no longer be processed.

  5. Log back in with the new password.