When you install Sybase software, Sybase creates a
system administrator account called "sa," which
can use any database on Adaptive
Server, including master, with full privileges.
Immediately after a new installation, Sybase assigns a
default password to "sa." For security purposes, make sure you must assign a password to
"sa" before using Adaptive Server in a production environment, as it is not possible to
have the "sa" password be NULL.
The Sybase system administrator should log in to Adaptive Server as "sa" and set a password: $SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin/isql -Usa -P -Sserver_name
1> sp_password default, new_password
2> go
where:
-
default – is the non-null
password.
-
new_password – is the password that
you are assigning to the "sa" account.
For the greatest security, Sybase recommends that you create
a password of at least six characters, with a combination of letters and
numbers.