Updating user ID and passwords
HCL Digital Experience and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server use some accounts from the registry (for example, the LDAP server) including administrative and bind IDs for authenticated access to databases and LDAP severs respectively, as well as the HCL Portal and WebSphere® Application Server administrative IDs. Often this means that the account passwords are stored in the HCL Portal and WebSphere® Application Server bootstraps configuration files, which allows the authentication process to work.
About this task
If the password for any ID is changed (either through HCL Portal or through any other means, including directly through the LDAP administration interfaces), then the password value stored in the appropriate configuration file must be changed at the same time. The following instructions describe how to make the appropriate changes based on which account passwords might have changed.
Use the following topics to change passwords to better secure your environment.