You use this page to specify how passwords are created for the users that you create as native Shared Services users. The passwords are created when the users are migrated.
Note: | If you are migrating only groups, password settings are not displayed. |
If you want passwords to be automatically generated, select the Auto-generated option. When deciding whether to select the option, consider the following:
Automatically generated passwords are recorded in a text file.
You must specify the password file and its extension, which is .txt.
The names of the password and log files cannot be the same.
If you specify a file name but not a file path, the file is created in the EPM_ORACLE_HOME\products\Essbase\eas\console\bin directory.
You can recover a password file by running the following MaxL statement: display user
You can append passwords to existing files.
If you want to assign native usernames as passwords, select the “Use native user name as password” option. During migration, the username is converted to a lowercase password; therefore, the password is lowercase in Shared Services. For example, the password of a native user named "Mark" is “mark.”
If you want all users to use the same password, select the Password option, and specify and confirm one password for all users.
In the Logging details area, specify or browse to the text file in which you want to log the details of the externalization process. You must specify the file extension .log. If you select an existing file, new entries are appended to previously existing entries. All information and error messages are written to the specified file. The names of the log and password files cannot be the same. Log information is also written to the Essbase log file.