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Changing the Siebel Local (DBA) Password

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For security purposes, you may want to change the local DBA password on Mobile Web Clients. To accomplish this task, you should change the DBA password in the database template file before generating the new database template.

The following is an overview of how to change the DBA password in the SQL Anywhere environment. You can use this as a model for changing the password in your own environment.

For information about this topic and about running the Generate New Database component, extracting the database, and initializing a local database, see Siebel Remote and Replication Manager Administration Guide.

To change the local DBA password on Mobile Web Clients

Run the Interactive SQL utility (dbisqlc.exe) on the server machine.
Change to the bin directory in the Siebel Server root directory:

cd SIEBSRVR_ROOT\bin

Start the utility by entering:

dbisqlc -c v

Enter the following command:

grant connect to user_id identified by new_password

For example, to set a new password of MYPASSWORD for the user DBA, enter:

grant connect to DBA identified by MYPASSWORD

NOTE:  You must use upper-case for every password in SQL Anywhere.

Click Execute.
Run the Generate New Database component using the new DBA password.
Run a Database Extract for Mobile Web Clients and notify mobile users to initialize their databases.

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