Resetting the wcsadmin user password

Resetting the wcsadmin user account password in the toolkit environment.

About this task

By default the administrator login ID and password are both wcsadmin.

You can reset the password for the wcsadmin user if both of the following statements are true:

You are using a new instance, not a migrated instance.
You did not change the merchant key from its default value.

After the wcsadmin user password is reset, the password becomes expired and must be changed the next time that the wcsadmin user logs on.

Procedure

Stop your test environment.
From a command window, navigate to the WCDE_installdir\bin directory, where WCDE_installdir is the installation directory of your development environment.

Depending on your database type, perform the following steps:

Connect to your database.

Enter the following SQL statements in order:

update userreg set logonpassword = x'54754E5431714A6D723871582F597361476A5A78647A38513537357378516A755944386141346C396A714E7165364D344F496B65385432754E6D726B3770437063774D307548727245743172794A727358446A7573773D3D' where logonid='wcsadmin'; 
update userreg set salt = 'hsdbacehyoyn' where logonid='wcsadmin'; 
update userreg set status = 1 where logonid='wcsadmin'; 
update userreg set passwordexpired = 0 where logonid='wcsadmin';

Type exit to close the IBM Db2 command window.

Open an SQLPlus command window by using the user name and password for your HCL Commerce database.

Enter the following SQL statements in order:

update userreg set logonpassword = '54754E5431714A6D723871582F597361476A5A78647A38513537357378516A755944386141346C396A714E7165364D344F496B65385432754E6D726B3770437063774D307548727245743172794A727358446A7573773D3D' where logonid='wcsadmin'; 
update userreg set salt = 'hsdbacehyoyn' where logonid='wcsadmin'; 
update userreg set status = 1 where logonid='wcsadmin'; 
update userreg set passwordexpired = 0 where logonid='wcsadmin';
commit;

Exit from the SQLPlus command window.

Results

The wcsadmin user password is reset and set to a password of your choice.