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3.15.1.3 Changing the Password of System Users

The CoreMedia system comes with predefined system users (see Table 3.53, “Users and their groups”) that are used by other components to connect with the content server.

System user Used by Password property
feeder
Content Feeder
CAE Feeder
repository.password
publisher Publisher
publisher.local.password
publisher.target[0].password

The publisher connects with both, Content Management Server and Master Live Server and uses therefore two properties with passwords.

studio Studio Server repository.password
watchdog Watchdog, used in watchdog definitions password
webserver
CAE
Elastic Worker
repository.password
workflow Workflow Server workflow.password

Table 3.57.  System users and usage


If you want to change the password of a system user, you can either set new passwords before the first start of the Content Server using a property or change it later, using the user management.

Changing password at first start

You can use the property cap.server.initialPassword.<username> (see Section 5.1, “Configuration Property Reference”) to change the default passwords before the first start of the Content Server.

  1. Change the property for the users for whom you want to change the password in the Content Server, for example cap.server.initialPassword.webserver=yourpassword.

  2. Change the password in the property file of the components that connect with this user.

Change the password with user management
  1. Change the password at the Content Server. Either use the user management in Studio (see Section 3.5, “Managing Users and Groups” in Studio User Manual) or use the changepassword server tool (see Section 3.13.2.2, “Changepassword).

  2. Change the password in the property file of the components that connect with this user.

If you think, that a plain text password in a properties file is a security threat, then you can use the encryptpasswordproperty tool (see Section 3.13.2.12, “Password Property Encryption” to encrypt the passwords in the properties files.

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