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Changing the Administrator User ID and Password

How to:

To enhance your system security, complete the following steps to change the default Administrator ID and password, or to add additional users.

Procedure: How to Change the Administrator User ID and Password

  1. Backup the users.xml file located in the drive:\ibi\NarrativeCharts\yseop-manager\ installation folder.
  2. Edit the users.xml file to modify the user name and display name. A sample users.xml file is shown in the following image.

    Note: The password is encrypted using the bcrypt algorithm.

  3. To change the password, open a Command window and navigate to the drive:\ibi\NarrativeCharts\yseop-manager\ folder.
  4. Run the following java command:
    java –jar com.yseop.bcrypt-1.0.0.jar

    You will be prompted for the password you want to encrypt.

  5. Type the new password. You will be prompted to confirm the new password.
  6. In the users.xml file, locate password="install_provided_password" and replace install_provided_password with the value generated by the bcrypt program.

    Note: Do not remove the beginning or ending double quotation marks (").

  7. You can add a new user by duplicating the block beginning with <user name> and ending with </user>.
  8. Save and close the file.
  9. Restart Tomcat.
  10. Verify the updated user ID and password by navigating to the http://localhost:20000/yseop-manager/admin/ admin page and providing the new credentials.

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