Modify user password and other account information

You must log on as a valid user with the appropriate permissions to modify account information.

You can change user passwords from the Platform Management Console or the command line, but you can only modify account information from the command line.

  1. To change your password from the Console:
    1. Go to the logon page and click Change Password.
    2. In the appropriate fields, enter your user name, current password, and a new password.
    3. Retype the new password to confirm it.
    4. Click Apply.

    The password can be made up of 1 to 16 alphanumeric or special characters, except control characters (Ctrl + key).

  2. To change your password from the command line:
    1. Run egosh user modify -u user_account -x password, specifying the name of the user account you wish to modify followed by its new password.

      The password can be made up of 1 to 16 alphanumeric or special characters, except control characters (Ctrl + key).

      Note:

      You cannot modify the name of the user account, only the password.

  3. To modify other user account information from the command line, add any of the following optional commands to egosh user modify -u user_account:

    egosh user modify -u user_account [-x password] [-e email] [-t telephone] [-d description]

    • -e email: Specifies a new email address of the user to whom this account belongs.

      Specify up to 64 alphanumeric or special characters, except control characters (Ctrl + key).

    • -t telephone: Specifies the telephone number of the user to whom this account belongs.

      Specify up to 20 numbers and spaces.

    • -d description: Specifies any additional information about the user account or the user to whom this account belongs.

      Specify up to 200 alphanumeric or special characters, except control characters (Ctrl + key). Enclose description in quotation marks if there are spaces within it.

In Windows, after changing an Admin user password, the password must be changed for lim services on all management hosts. Be sure to run egoconfig mghost on each management host after making a password change.