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

• About Managing and Changing Passwords
• About Default Accounts
• Changing System Administrator Passwords on Microsoft Windows
• Changing the Siebel Administrator Password on UNIX
• Changing the Table Owner Password
• Troubleshooting Password Changes By Checking for Failed Server Tasks
• About the Gateway Name Server Authentication Password
• Changing the Siebel Enterprise Security Token
• Encrypted Passwords in the eapps.cfg File
• Encrypting Passwords Using the encryptstring Utility
• About Encryption of Gateway Name Server Password Parameters