Setting Passwords or Disabling Default Login Accounts

Set new passwords for default user accounts if you plan to use them. If you do not plan to use the accounts, disable them. The default user accounts are sccadmin (Sybase Control Center) and uafadmin (SCC agent).

Prerequisites

Before disabling the sccadmin or uafadmin accounts:

Configure Sybase Control Center (or the SCC agent, if you are disabling its uafadmin account) to authenticate users through LDAP or the operating system. See Get Started > Setting Up Security in the Sybase Control Center online help.
Grant Sybase Control Center (or SCC agent) administration privileges to at least one user account in LDAP or the operating system. See Get Started > User Authorization in the online help.

Task

In a text editor, open the csi_config.xml file:
- Windows: %SYBASE%\SCC-3_2\conf\csi_config.xml
- UNIX: $SYBASE/SCC-3_2/conf/csi_config.xml

Search for the account name:

Sybase Control Center: sccadmin
SCC agent: uafadmin

The block containing the account name should look similar to this:

<!-- Default SCC admin account: sccadmin -->
<authenticationProvider controlFlag="sufficient"
     name="com.sybase.security.core.PreConfiguredUserLoginModule">
    <options name="username" value="sccadmin"/>
    <options name="password" value="{SHA-256:QZT6pRIx6l8=}sENxwVBfp65aaTjd/vAZFQAQOmkrk4Zl7iXLOFyJqCM="/>
    <options name="roles" value="SCC Administrator"/>
</authenticationProvider>

<!-- Default SCC agent admin account: uafadmin -->
<authenticationProvider controlFlag="sufficient"
     name="com.sybase.security.core.PreConfiguredUserLoginModule">
    <options name="username" value="uafadmin"/>
    <options name="password" value="{SHA-256:WNATpqw76zA=}GYeAKdTRiIh1VcqmWv1k/A2pcXSHfLUBr9boP03ArKE=" />
    <options name="roles" value="SCC Agent Administrator"/>
</authenticationProvider>

(Optional) To disable an account, comment out the sccadmin or uafadmin block of the file by moving the --> characters from the end of the first line to the end of the last line, so the last line looks like this:
```
</authenticationProvider> -->
```
Then skip to step 6.
Encrypt and copy a password for the sccadmin or uafadmin account. (See Encrypting a Password.)
Paste the encrypted password into the value field of the password line. It looks similar to this—be sure to paste inside the double quotes:
```
<options name="password" value="{SHA-256:WNATpqw76zA=}GYeAKdTRiIh1VcqmWv1k/A2pcXSHfLUBr9boP03ArKE=" />
```
Save the file and exit.
To make the new or disabled passwords take effect, restart the Sybase Control Center server or agent on which the changes were made.