Use selang to Change a Password

You can use selang to change the password for the following service accounts:

You may need to regularly change the password for these accounts to comply with your organization's security and password policies.

When you use selang to change a password, note the following:

You must enclose the password in double quotes.
You cannot use advanced policy management to propagate password change commands.

Note: You may need to use more than one method to change the password on all components that the service account interacts with.

To use selang to change a password, run the following command:

cu user password("password") grace- nonative

Note: If you cut and paste the password into the command, verify that the password does not contain carriage returns or line feeds.

Example: Change the +policyfetcher Password

This command changes the password for the +policyfetcher user. The password is "secret", and must be in clear text and enclosed in double quotes:

AC> cu +policyfetcher password("secret") grace- nonative
(localhost)
Successfully updated USER +policyfetcher

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