David et al, What special chars are allowed to be used in the passwords. I'm not sure if it applies to all but I seem to have some problems with some of these; !...@#$%^&*()_+?
Thanks as always for the help. David E Jones-3 wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:20 AM, kunal aggarwal wrote: > >> Hello BJ, >> >> I think that xml file contains password in excrypted form. How can one >> change that file in that case. >> >> One has to put the encrypted password only in that xml file. i think >> it >> seems impossible to to put encrypted password in xml file? > > And yet amazingly there is an encrypted password string in the XML > file... > > The easiest is to load the seed, seed-initial, and whatever other > initial data you need/want and then to change the admin and related > passwords through the Party Manager, and then you're set to go. The > passwords are part of the seed-initial data, and that should never be > loaded again (though if you suspect anything has changed there, then > you can do a data set diff in webtools to see what is different > between the database and the data files and selectively make updates). > > On a side note, you really should disable the admin account and not > just change the password. All users, even admin users, should have > their own individual named accounts. It's a good security practice, > and mandate for things like PCI compliance. > > -David > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/change-username-and-password-tp21487010p21502671.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
