This chapter provides guidelines on how to change passwords. It includes the following topics:

• Changing Passwords
• Changing System Administrator Passwords on Microsoft Windows
• Changing the Siebel Administrator Password on UNIX
• Changing the Table Owner (DBO) Password
• Troubleshooting Password Changes By Checking for Failed Server Tasks
• Changing Passwords in the Siebel Management Framework
• Changing the Siebel Enterprise Security Token
• Managing Encrypted Passwords in the eapps.cfg File
• Encrypting Passwords Using the encryptstring Utility
• About Password Encryption

For information about configuring and using hashed user passwords and database credentials passwords through your security adapter, see About Password Hashing.